Review of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004) by Michelle . — 05 Aug 2004

[b]Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism[/b] is finally THE documentary of the year to me. This is a documentary Michael Moore could just dream of. This movie represented all things which I hate FOX for, because I've seen it all before. It took me just a few days of 9/11 coverage after the attacks in 2001 to come to the no-brainer conclusion that FOX channel is pure conservative political propaganda. It all looks so nice and colorful, that's why I watched it in the first place, but it's a disgrace to intelligence and opinion, that's why I turned it off at some point.

Now I also know why some media outlets believe the US-economy was doing so great. It's been suggested many times on FOX channel, while the country is in deep debt - around 500 billion Dollars.

I also thought it was funny how they said John Kerry looked French, just to make him look bad, because the French aren't very much appreciated in the US. I'd have never had the idea!

Also the many incidents of FOX-reporters telling people to "shut up". Just too funny, but just so true. They have many ways to say shut up to people, but they actually use the words for it also. If anybody on German TV told a guest on TV to "Halt's Maul!" I guess they'd get fired.

That whole story around Jeremy M Glick was also amazing. Wow, you're invited, because your relative has died during the World Trade Center attack, and then you end up getting slammed and shouted at for having an opinion. They sure thought they could feed the public with a nice sad story about a WTC victim, but it just didn't happen. The hate propaganda didn't work, that's why Jeremy M Glick was treated real badly, and they told him to leave the studio fast not to end up in a fist fight with O'Reilly, haha. Phew.

I can't believe Americans are eating this channel day in, day out. I couldn't bear it anymore after only a few days, and the only reason why I'd watch FOX again is to just get confirmation about what kind of pricks are working there. Within only minutes. It's almost as bad as the radio propaganda they ran in Germany while Hitler was ruling - just a tad bit more subtile.

It's interesting they also had Jamie Masada on this documentary. Though in that case FOX was right about that guy.

I'd absolutely recommend this movie! Of course, only to those that can deal with criticism.