Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)

Directors

Robert Greenwald

Cast

Douglas Cheek, Walter Cronkite, Richard Clarke, Eric Alterman, David Brock, Jeff Cohen, Christiane Amanpour, Tom Brokaw, George W. Bush, George Carlin, Alan Colmes, Al Franken, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Jeremy Glick, Peter Jennings, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Rupert Murdoch, Bill O'Reilly, Dan Rather, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Sheen, Jon Stewart

The story

The film examines the global growth of Murdoch's media enterprise in the context of concentration of media ownership considerations, and evaluates the effect of having one person in control of a large media conglomerate on freedom of the press. Some of Outfoxeds coverage includes: Review of Fox News's coverage during the lead-up to, and the aftermath of, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Interviews with former Fox News journalists, discussing incidents where Fox News allegedly pressured journalists to slant their reports towards support for the Republican Party.

Genres

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