FAUX News NAILED! www.outfoxed.org - check it out and watch the trailer!!!

[jackstraw45]

http://www.outfoxed.org

Also, clips here:

http://www.outfoxed.org/Clips.php

What is all this about?

Documentary Aims to Show Bias on Fox News
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - A new documentary backed by liberal political groups aims to document that the Fox News Channel is anything but "fair and balanced," despite the cable-news network's motto.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=3&u=/ap/20040713/ap_en_tv/tv_outfoxed_documentary

SEE THE FILM THIS WEEKEND at a screening in your neighborhood!

http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/

[NJCher]

1. shocked!

Really; I'm not being sarcastic. I've never watched Fox for more than two or three minutes and that was only once or twice.

That's just mind boggling.


Cher

[mstrsplinter326]

2. posting

for later returning

[fob]

13. ditto

[jackstraw45]

3. How many here have dem-leaning relatives who watch Fox news?

I know I do....THIS will hopefully be a wake-up call.

[AlCzervik]

4. I just bought the dvd

can't wait to see the whole thing.

[SaveElmer]

5. That looks awesome...I bought the DVD

It'd be nice if we could get the word out and make this a best-seller!!!

[jackstraw45]

6. Email the website to your friends and relatives...

that's the way to get the word out!

[AlCzervik]

7. Did you get a confirmation email?

I haven't yet.

[KAZ]

15. I can't even place an order!

fulfillmentconcepts.com seems to be overwhelmed or underpowered.

[AlCzervik]

17. i actually just got a confirmation email

try the site again later, i had trouble at first placing my order and then i went back later and it wotked. i called the production company in culver city and told them about the glitches and that they have many du'ers that would like to order the film.

[lostnfound]

22. Me too. And one to give to a friend who needs to know! nt

[zaj]

8. We recieved ours last night for our MoveOn party...

"previewed" it last night...

Very well done. And funny too!

[buycitgo]

9. I tried the search thing at moveon, and it didn't work

anybody else have that happen?

[Oddman]

10. It's amazing how many reasonable people still don't realize

that Fox news is a propaganda machine - a HUGE propaganda machine.

Pure and simple. Most people still don't know that it is owned by the ultra conservative Australian Rupert Murdoch a power-mad, right-wing vulgarian. Rupert Murdoch has indeed been relentless in building a one-of-a kind media network that spans the world.

[jackstraw45]

11. Hopefully this film and people like us spreading word of this film

will help.

You're right though...it's amazing.

Just as amazing as Bush STILL having about 50% support in this country after all the crimes of this administration.

If Bush was a democrat, he'd be impeached by now NO question.

[underpants]

12. I can't get the damned sound to work

:grr:

[underpants]

14. Oh uh I fixed it

Looks awesome.

[Zorra]

16. It would be better if they called it "Pox News".

Because this network is a national disease, and a journalistic disgrace.

'We report, you
decide (wrongly)'
Study: Fox News tops in misinformed viewers
By Toni Fitzgerald

Perhaps Fox News Channel viewers are taking the network’s motto, “We report, you decide,” a bit too seriously. More so than viewers of any other network, those who get their news from FNC are deciding wrong, believing untrue things about the war in Iraq.
Almost half think that Iraq and Al Qaeda have been linked, a quarter think that world opinion favored the war, and 23 percent think that weapons of mass destruction have been uncovered, according to a new study. None of those statements about the war is true.
While you can’t exactly blame Fox News for its viewers’ beliefs, you probably can blame the network for not presenting a more accurate picture of the war.
snip----
Eighty percent of FNC viewers have at least one of those three incorrect views, compared to 71 percent of CBS’s, 61 percent of ABC’s and 55 percent of NBC’s and CNN’s.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2003/oct03/oct06/4_thurs/news2thursday.html

A Special FAIR Report
The Most Biased Name in News
Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt

Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives' frequent denunciations of "liberal bias" in the media were part of "a strategy" (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: "If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time."

But when Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch's 24-hour cable network, debuted in 1996, a curious thing happened: Instead of denouncing it, conservative politicians and activists lavished praise on the network. "If it hadn't been for Fox, I don't know what I'd have done for the news," Trent Lott gushed after the Florida election recount (Washington Post, 2/5/01). George W. Bush extolled Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snow--a former speechwriter for Bush's father--and his "impressive transition to journalism" in a specially taped April 2001 tribute to Snow's Sunday-morning show on its five-year anniversary (Washington Post, 5/7/01). The right-wing Heritage Foundation had to warn its staffers not to watch so much Fox News on their computers, because it was causing the think tank's system to crash.

When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives don't feel the need to "work the ref." The ref is already on their side. Since its 1996 launch, Fox has become a central hub of the conservative movement's well-oiled media machine. Together with the GOP organization and its satellite think tanks and advocacy groups, this network of fiercely partisan outlets--such as the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaugh's--forms a highly effective right-wing echo chamber where GOP-friendly news stories can be promoted, repeated and amplified. Fox knows how to play this game better than anyone.
snip-----
The abundance of conservatives and Republicans at Fox News Channel does not seem to be a coincidence. In 1996, Andrew Kirtzman, a respected New York City cable news reporter, was interviewed for a job with Fox and says that management wanted to know what his political affiliation was. "They were afraid I was a Democrat," he told the Village Voice (10/15/96). When Kirtzman refused to tell Fox his party ID, "all employment discussion ended," according to the Voice.

http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html

[jackstraw45]

18. Kicking up

:kick:

[Beaverhausen]

19. Moveon.org is having house parties to watch it this sunday night

http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/

go there to find a party near you!

[Shopaholic]

20. Here's an example of Faux's "fair and balanced" reporting in action:

According to the cable news industry website: www.cablenewser.com:

"Brian Wilson referenced a new PEJ study on media coverage. The last four months of coverage has, been, Wilson said, "substantially more focused on, and mostly negative toward, President Bush. The study shows that 56 percent of media coverage has described President Bush as either arrogant or lacking credibility. By contrast, John Kerry has been described negatively nearly half as much."

Not wanting to take Fox's word on anything, I tracked down the report at:

http://journalism.org/resources/research/reports/campaign2004/character/default.asp

Here's a direct quote from that study:

"Kerry's candidacy, on the other hand, has largely been absent in the news so far, accounting for just 28% of the themes overall. When the press did choose to include Kerry in stories that talked about the presidential election, the message was most often negative, just as it was for Bush. Statements about Kerry's tendency to change his mind on issues made up 12% of all themes. Similarly, those presenting him as very liberal made up 11%."

And the stat that Brian Wilson mentioned? Well, it would seem that he failed to present the entire set of statistics. Here they are, taken directly from the study:

Positive and Negative Themes By Candidate
(Excluding refuting themes)
Tone of Themes Percent"

Bush Negative 56.3%
Bush Positive 16.0

Kerry Negative 23.3
Kerry Positive 4.4

Total 100%

By my calculations, that would mean that Bush received four times more positive coverage than Kerry did--something which, Faux, of course, failed to mention.

[jackstraw45]

21. Bump to find a houseparty...spread the word!

Faux must END.

[U4ikLefty]

23. Are any "brick & mortar" stores carrying it yet???

I would like to go & pick up a copy tomorrow.