IJ Reilly
Aug 8, 2004, 03:24 PM
Who else has watched this movie? My copy arrived on Friday (they can be purchased for $9.95 at outfoxed.org).
My most lasting reaction to the film came from the segments targeting Bill O'Reilly. They could easily have devoted the entire hour and a quarter just to exposing him. The man is so completely unhinged, such a pathological liar (as Al Franken calls him in an interview), that his very presence on Fox discredits them as a purveyor of news.
The overall message of the movie, at least the way I take it, is that we're in danger of creating a Balkanized media in the US, even as it becomes concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer. Even if it was nothing else, Fox is the model for market-driven news. Not that this an entirely new concept -- I also take away the sense that Murdoch is the heir apparent to William Randolph Hurst. And if that doesn't give you a serious case of the yips, then you don't know your history.
Technically speaking, the film is a bit rough. It was probably made on equipment not much more sophisticated than what many of us have at home. Not that this is a bad thing, necessarily, but the movie does have a few cheesy production moments.
On a whole, well worth seeing IMO. I'm going to circulate my copy among friends.
My most lasting reaction to the film came from the segments targeting Bill O'Reilly. They could easily have devoted the entire hour and a quarter just to exposing him. The man is so completely unhinged, such a pathological liar (as Al Franken calls him in an interview), that his very presence on Fox discredits them as a purveyor of news.
The overall message of the movie, at least the way I take it, is that we're in danger of creating a Balkanized media in the US, even as it becomes concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer. Even if it was nothing else, Fox is the model for market-driven news. Not that this an entirely new concept -- I also take away the sense that Murdoch is the heir apparent to William Randolph Hurst. And if that doesn't give you a serious case of the yips, then you don't know your history.
Technically speaking, the film is a bit rough. It was probably made on equipment not much more sophisticated than what many of us have at home. Not that this is a bad thing, necessarily, but the movie does have a few cheesy production moments.
On a whole, well worth seeing IMO. I'm going to circulate my copy among friends.
