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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 27 2004, 02:51 AM
Fox News, however, as a news reporting network is legitimate and quite good.
If you don't like the conservatively slanted magazine shows they put on at night, that's fine..but don't dismiss the entire news network based on that. How many of the people on "Outfoxed" (WTF is that anyway?) were talking about news reporting and how many were talking about O'Reilly and Shawn Hannity?
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Actually Dis, FoxNews is brutal at reporting the news. I've always thought that they were more like a big panel show than they were an actual news agent. I also never liked the fact that they were always reporting on the Republican issue of the day, which Outfoxed actually outs as being fact and supports it with FoxNews memos. Outfoxed is not really focused on the personalities but on the content and delivery of the message. If they were looking to do a character assassination on O'Reilly, Hume, Hannity, etc. they could have done a 12 DVD volume. FoxNews is just littered with clips that could nail these clowns to the wall.
As for who is on the documentary and what their credential are, well Walter Cronkite lends his views about what journalism is, and what Fox is not. They also have numerous ex-Fox staff reporters, producers experts (content experts) and personalities to give their input on things. I guess what really caught me off guard was the fact that senior management passes down a memo each day outlining issues that must be mentioned and things to play up on. As well, every slam that you get in on the Democrats is rewarded and viewed as career enhancing. It didn't seem like that was an environment to developing "fair and balanced" journalism. In fact, the statistics presented by a watchdog committee (I can't remember which one) showed that the FoxNews producers brought on 5 Republicans to every Democrat, and that the Republicans were major players compared to the Democrats who were window dressing or new kinds on the block. The Democrats were food for the on air personalities to crew up and spit out.
I would recommend you watch it. Its available at Blockbuster and is at worst an entertaining 100 minutes of footage.