'Outfoxed' filmmaker takes aim at Fox News Channel

by sf 14 Replies latest social current

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  Badger

  The best source of unbiased news is the AP Wire.

  Unfortunately, you need to own a media outlet to subscribe. I've worked at small papers from all over the spectrum, and they would pick and choose which stories to run. One had an obsession with finding Tim McVeigh innocent and blaming it on Drug Lords. Another would run every anti-Bush story possible.

  Plus, those AP stories are at the mercy of placement in the paper, severe editing (sometimes for space, sometimes for slant) and headlines.

  Fox brawling with moveon? they deserve each other.
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  BluesBrother

  I generally keep out of "topical" threads, especially American ones. But Foxnews is a great favourite of my other half.. We get it in the Uk on satelite TV.

  We have more arguments about this than ,.... (when we are are not arguing over J W religion) . To me it is obviously the most unfair and unbalanced of newschannells. It is almost childish sometimes. eq, Iraqi dissudents are simply "The bad guys" as if we were watching a cowboy film. I do find it interesting to see how the U S media is allowed to get away with things that would never be allowed here.It can be entertaining, but about as balanced as a Republican election broadcast
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  NewSense

  Bluesbrother: You claim that Fox News is unfair and biased in its coverage, a point with which I agree. But I am confused about something. You say Fox News' coverage of Iraqi "dissudents" (the word is spelled *dissidents* - And I had always thought that you Brits were far better at spelling than us colonials!!!) is sometimes childish in portraying said dissidents as "the bad guys." Uugh, don't you mean the Iraqi *insurgents*. It is the Iraqi insurgents who are fighting the facist occupation forces. I suppose that the insurgents could be considered in some respects as "dissidents" against the newly installed puppet government. However, as far as I know, these fighters are usually called insurgents. Dissidents usually engage in non-military resistance; insurgents take up arms.
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  hillary_step

  NewSense,

  However, as far as I know, these fighters are usually called insurgents. Dissidents usually engage in non-military resistance; insurgents take up arms.

  Perhaps these terms are not mutually exclusive. Gerry Adams for example would describe himself as a dissident, but supports the existence of insurgents in his own ideology. Another example. Many of the Iraq religious leaders do not hold a weapon, but do control those that do. Are they dissidents, or insurgents?

  If the line between being a 'dissident' and an 'insurgent' is only defined at the moment that a person picks up a weapon, it would not serve the cause of revolutionary history very accurately.

  Pedantic I know, but it was your good self criticized others for the use of their definitions.

  HS
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  Robdar

  Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

  Oh, Boo Hoo.

  I don't like Fox and have stopped watching it because of it's biased slant but I can't feel sorry for these people who choose to stay at Fox knowing what they know. And to "remain annonymous to protect their current livelihoods" shows me that they have no integrity themselves. There are other media jobs out there besides Fox. If they don't like what Fox does, let them find another job instead of wringing their hands and whining as if they are helpless.

  Robyn