Outfoxed-Good or Snooze?

[noahmijo]

I'm thinking about ordering since it only costs a tenner at Amazon. However I don't want my time to be wasted if it's nothing but a snoozefest.

Of course I am not expecting a F 9/11 only for Fox News, but I mean is it entertaining enough and interesting enough to own?

[wyldwolf]

1. the other two movies from these people were worthwhile...

..though I bit incomplete for those who followed the events.

[Citizen Daryl]

2. It's worth $10.

But for my money, I'd highly recommend "Orwell Is Spinning In His Grave". Buzzflash is selling it for $30 and I just finished watching it. It's an outstanding piece of filmmaking.

I really walked away from it with a fresh understanding of just how compromised our media really is. We're really not all that different from the state-controlled media as we pretend to be.

Yeah, I knew that already, at least in theory. But "Spinning" lays it out in a way that knocked me senseless.

Get both. They're both good and the money goes to good causes.

[NightOwwl]

3. Excellent

It's worth the 10 bucks just to see the montage of O'Lielly.

The video shows the progression of Fox from inception to where it is today. It's editorial interspersed with lots of clips from the FauxNews and it is put together in a very entertaining way.

[chelsea0011]

6. O'lielly spent years doing Elvis sightings on Inside Edition

and now he passes himself off as a journalist.

[Citizen Daryl]

4. You can also get it at OutFoxed.org n/t

[ikojo]

5. Also, for good thorough media analysis

I recommend any book by Robert McChesney. He is a professor at the Univ of IL in Champaign. Excellent analysis.

From amazon.com

The first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book on media, from one of today's most reputable and insightful media historian/critics. Winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, Rich Media, Poor Democracy challenges the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians," argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. This concentrated corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy. Combining unprecedented detail on current events with historical sweep, in a book Noam Chomsky calls a "rich and penetrating study," McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the internet, digital television, and public broadcasting. He also addresses the gradual and ominous adaptation of the First Amendment as a means of shielding corporate media power and the wealthy, and he debunks the myth that the market compels media firms to "give the people what they want." In an eye-opening call to action, McChesney warns that we must organize politically to restructure the media if we want democracy to endure.

[milkyway]

9. McChesney appears in "Outfoxed" several times. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I will be finding out

in a few minutes. Will report back.:)

[TA]

8. Well worth the $10. After watching it I have one thing to say to O'Liely

shut up, Shut UP, SHUT UP you little pinhead, Shut UP.

[nolabels]

10. Thanks for the review, I am glad I sent away for it now

A few people at my work are a little clueless, passing it around there for others to see could be of a help. Many there are virtually computer illiterate even, hunt and peck and wouldn't even know what C:\ was for!
It's kinda :scared: out there folks

[lucky777]

11. Good but 'Orwell Rolls in his Grave' is better

since the scope is broader. 'Orwell' is more pessimistic but also more accurate about the scope of the problem with the news media (ha!).