Outfoxed

Pros: provocative, good pacing, uses Fox's own footage to make the point
Cons: over-reaches a bit to blame Fox News for Bush (not) being elected in 2000

How ironic, is it, that Colin Powell was seen on television this week, calling into question the Ukrainian election results. The cries of fraud ring particularly hollow since the main reasoning for this seems to be that the results do not match what the ...

Pros: Good production and execution; Backs up its claims
Cons: Very one- sided, with no defending arguments from the other side.

Accusations of bias in the news media are a subject that has motivated debate on all sides of the political Nolan chart. People of all different political stripes have come forward, branding the news on a particular network or in a specific magazine as ...

Pros: It's shorter than Fahrenheit 9/11
Cons: Knowing I actually watched this

Suppose you wanted to make a documentary designed to smear a company. How would you go about it? First, you'd round up a bunch of former (meaning laid off or just plain fired) employees and interview them about the company that they used to work ...

Pros: necessary and timely expose of a network claiming to be "fair and balanced"
Cons: it will be written off by many, simply because of its supposed political agenda

Outfoxed, the latest in a surprisingly strong string of political documentaries to be released in this all-important election year, is a much more difficult film to debunk or deride than Michael Moore's recent Fahrenheit 9/11 - and it's ...

Pros: Organizes the complaints against Murdoch and Fox News. Fact based.
Cons: Fox fans will likely not see the movie. Some won't even understand it.

“Outfoxed” is not a Friday-night, fun video. Do not expect a “Fahrenheit 911” or “Super Size Me” with the borderline Hollywood production approach and some of the cheap shots like vomiting out car windows. Pumping the product/film for the masses would ...

Pros: They show how political the media has become.
Cons: They only examine one News Network because it is a political film.

Directed by Robert Greenwald George W. Bush as Himself Dick Cheney as Himself Sean Hannity as Himself Al Franken as Himself Alan Colmes as Himself Jeremy Glick as Himself Ted Kennedy as Himself Dan Rather as Himself Martin Sheen as ...

Pros: Well-researched documentary. Interesting, thought provoking.
Cons: Tends to appeal to one point of view.

Fair and balanced-that's the motto of Fox News. But how fair and how balanced is the reporting at Fox? Certainly, all journalists have some political bias. It's difficult for anyone to completely remove themselves from their ideological leanings. Even ...

Pros: Used facts, not conjecture to make points; interviewed former Fox employees.
Cons: None

Where to begin? I do not regularly watch Fox News, because of three overriding reasons; 1). their slant on the news is decidedly biased towards the right; 2). the O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly, and; 3). Hannity & Colmes ...

Pros: Entertaining.
Cons: Rather short and somewhat one-sided.

So the eternal question remains: Is there a conservative bias at the Fox News channel? Is it a good idea to go swimming in a crocodile infested river? At this point, it's widely accepted by most people that Fox News is conservative leaning, just as ...

Pros: Very Focused, on target, on message. Not overly long.
Cons: Completely one-sided.

Welome to a new world. OUTFOXED is the latest DVD essay/documentary sponsored in part by the MoveOn organization and made by producer director Robert Greenwald. It was shown at hundreds (perhaps thousands) of house parties in July to captive left ...

Pros: damning, calculated, and intense scrutiny of the Fox News Channel's right wing bias
Cons: obviously one sided

I thought one of the better questions raised by Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 was the fact that a first cousin of President Bush who was working for Fox News Channel made the decision based on too ...

Pros: Good for the general public.
Cons: The general public will never watch this film.

As you might have gathered, should you have read some of my other Epinions, I am not a fan of the Republican Party and those associated with it. I do not feel as though conservative values and ideologies is what this country needs, nor do I hold much of ...

Pros: Good look at Fox News
Cons: Fox News

Outfoxed, an expose about the right-wing bias of Fox News, might seem like an exercise in shooting fish in a barrel. Fox News is conservative? No! Next thing you'll be telling me that there's no such thing as the Great Pumpkin. After all, they are ...

Pros: Excellent for those who are starting to study Fox News or media bias in general
Cons: Wildly biased itself, doesn't cover the best dirt, some assertions are questionable at best.

Outfoxed is a relatively superficial look at Fox News, owned by Rupert Murdoch. It covers a vitally important topic in the media today; What are the effects of corporate ownership of a news channel when said ownership desires their opinion to be spread? ...

Pros: Scathing documentary, eye-opening footage, will make you think long after it's over.
Cons: Hardly an objective criticism.

First, an admission. The Fox News phenomenon is rather new to me. I haven’t watched TV news in years, preferring to sift through the newspaper or the best I could find online from sources like Reuters and Associated Press. For me, the reason, outside ...