It's Been Ten Years Since 'Outfoxed'
Gave Fox News A Huge Headache The Huffington Post | By
Catherine Taibi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/login/
Posted: 07/10/2014
Ten
years after the release of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On
Journalism," the film's director Robert Greenwald said it's difficult to
think that there was once a time when Fox News wasn't widely known as a
right-wing network. "This is
hard to remember," Greenwald said in a 10th anniversary video, "but
back then, Fox was often driving the media conversation.""Outfoxed,"
caused
a major stir when it was released in 2004. The film leveled stinging
allegations at the network, accusing it of conservative bias, politicized
coverage and strategic manipulation of its viewers. Greenwald has
said that he thinks the documentary was one of the first forthright attacks
on Fox News at a time when many still remained uncertain of its agenda. Since
the film's debut, several
news outlets and journalists have continued to document the political ties
between the network and the Republican Party, notably Rolling
Stone and Roger
Ailes' biographer Gabriel Sherman. In the anniversary video, Greenwald said
that his goal in making the film was to show that Fox News was "not a news
network but in fact a biased source of information." Ten years later, he
said he is "very proud" of what the film has accomplished and
thrilled that other media figures like Stephen
Colbert and Jon
Stewart have also gone after Fox News. "Our job is to continue to
build other media to counter Fox," Greenwald said. "There is a truth,
there are facts, and none of them are on Fox."
Watch the clip for the 10th anniversary
video.
The
ploy inventing Òhorrible Liberal MediaÓ is a mythical Straw man; which was
fabricated after two reporters from the Washington Post exposed the criminality
and corruption of the Nixon Administration. The news papers from 1950, to today,
are owned by right wing Republicans. Television from the 1950s has and is owned
by corporations. There has never been a liberal media in America.
Fox News was created to be an answer to a mythical left wing media; a left wing
media that was fabricated by folks ÒstingingÓ from the corruption and
criminality of the Nixon Era.
Fox News has managed to manipulate their viewers in ways I never
imagined was impossible. Thanks to Fox News their viewers believe all of their
problems will be solved if there were no more liberals, good paying union jobs
or free public education in America. Fox NewsÕ programming is intended to
agitate, distract and entertain their viewers; in the same was as the Roman
Games. Instead of the Emperor picking their pockets today it is international
corporations manipulating the most misinformed people in America to vote in
their own worst interest.