Outfoxed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outfoxed |
| Original title | Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Greenwald |
| production | Robert Greenwald |
| music | Nicholas O'Toole |
| camera | James Curry, Will Miller, Glen Pearcy, Richard Ray Perez, Luke Riffle, Bob Sullivan |
| cut | Jane Pia Abramowitz, Jovan Bell, Douglas Cheek, Chris M. Gordon, Erin Kelly, Monica Kowalski, Hannah Williams |
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism ( engl. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism) is a documentation of the American director and producer Robert Greenwald from the year 2004 .
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The film takes a critical look at the development of the media landscape in the United States, with a particular focus on the Fox News Channel , which is operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation . The documentary accuses Fox News Channel of biased reporting in favor of right-wing Republican politics .
The moderators Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are highlighted as particularly negative, rude insulting the interview guests and simply cutting off the word if their opinion does not suit them. As a particularly significant example, an interview by O'Reilly with Jeremy Glick is summarized. Glick's father, Barry, was killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks , and Glick had spoken out publicly against George W. Bush's war policies. It is not Jeremy Glick of the same name who was killed in the accident on flight UA93 . During the interview, Glick mentioned that the US had supported Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the past. O'Reilly yelled at Glick to "shut up", insulted him, and stopped letting him speak. In a later interview, Glick stated that he was chased out of the studio. O'Reilly later said untruthfully that Glick had claimed on the show that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks.
Commentators on the film have argued that Fox News' news does not even fit the definition of a news program, and therefore does not deserve the label. Former Fox News employees also have their say, claiming that they were sworn to follow the station's reactionary line while at work and that they were constantly monitored. The editorial team would have aimed to identify Jesse Jackson , John Kerry and Al Gore as opponents and either punished them with disregard or tried to make ridiculous. Jesse Jackson was explicitly called the enemy. Kerry was referred to as "french" during the 2004 election campaign, which was considered an insult in American parlance. A Fox journalist greeted him with the words "Bonjour". Another Fox journalist interviewed President Bush and told him on camera that his wife was campaigning for him. It is also part of Fox's journalistic tactics to initiate slanderous rumors with the phrase "Some say" and thus to put interviewees under pressure.
Former Fox employees also claim that it was policy not to show positive reports about immigrants because they were just parasites, to portray Ronald Reagan as generally positive and to spread homophobic reports about same-sex marriage. During the 2004 election campaign, Kerry's Vietnam Service was discredited by allegedly throwing away his medals after the war. Likewise, negative developments on the stock market were not blamed on the incumbent President Bush, but on Kerry, as the market was supposedly afraid of his takeover.
The film ends with the fear that Fox could gain a monopoly over the media market and thus damage democracy.
background
The production company released the film in the USA in an unusual way. It was shown on DVD by private individuals and initiatives at so-called house parties . The film was later shown in cinemas in some major cities. The self-made material, which largely consists of interviews, was also published by the producers on the Internet under the Creative Commons license.
The Center for American Progress and the MoveOn.Org organization were involved in creating the film .
Fox News took legal action against the film because it wanted to prevent the use of excerpts of the TV program without broadcasting permission. To analyze the program of the news channel, the production team used volunteers from the peace initiative and civil rights organization Move On , who agreed to watch the program (together) 24 hours a day.
Reviews
David Rooney, critic on Variety.com, praised the film. This uses evidence from the material from Fox News how the station creates a climate of fear in the United States.
Megan Lehmann wrote in the New York Post that the film was one-sided to Fox's disadvantage. The New York Post is part of the Murdoch Group.
Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post praised the use of internal memos to show the station's policies. Negatively, he mentioned that there was no opposing vote.
Based on 59 evaluated reviews, the film has a positive rate of 85% on the Rottentomatoes website .
Web links
- Official website of the film
- Outfoxed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Move On
- archive.org Download the interviews
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malte Lehming: The long and the great courage - Tagesspiegel from September 12, 2003
- ↑ David Rooney: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism , Variety.com. July 12, 2004. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
- ^ Megan Lehmann : Fair and Balanced, this Doc's Not , New York Post . August 6, 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
- ^ Howard Kurtz : Tilting at the Right, Leaning to the Left: Robert Greenwald's 'Outfoxed' Has Its Own Slant on Balance , The Washington Post . July 11, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
- ↑ On Rotentomatoes