In Rosie O'Donnell's latest feud, with Bill O'Reilly and FOX News, she keeps mentioning a video called OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism. Rent it, she says. Get it on NetFlix, she says. Well, to tell you the truth, that's just too much work for me. But on her blog site, a commenter added the link above where it can be viewed online. That I can do. And did it, I did. My blood has been boiling ever since.
The show was produced a couple years ago but the effort has been kept up via the OUTFOXED web site. Check it out. I was such an involved activist in California for nearly a decade, sometimes volunteering 60 hours a week, but I've been lower key since my move to New York. Family circumstances have curtailed my activities quite a bit. However, this video has reinvigorated me and re-lit my fire!
The part of the program that I found particularly interesting was the segment about the graphics used on FOX News.
• As a graphic artist (yes, I'm the geek that notices what font is used in everything that's printed), I remember watching those FOX News graphics on the run-up to the war in Iraq. The flag. The fighter jets. The missiles launching. The marching Marines. It made me feel so patriotic! Did it help sway my opinion about the war? I hate to admit it, but it did.
• Did you ever see the movie Starship Troopers back in 1999? It was directed by Paul Verhoeven of Robocop fame. Remember how they spoofed WWII propaganda films in breaking news type segments within the film? It seemed so ridiculous at the time, and totally unbelievable because it was done in such a cartoonish way, but is it really that far from what FOX News does today?
As with anything, this was produced with a certain point of view. Arguably, you could say that the producers are doing exactly what FOX News does just from a different viewpoint. But if you think they mischaracterize Bill O'Reilly, read my post "Bill O'Reilly Goes Ape On Geraldo's Latin Ass" from earlier this month.
I have removed FOX News from my remote so I skip right over it. And I've added the link to the top of my blog's right menu bar so when this post disappears into my archives, it will still be top of mind and very visible for future visitors.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
OUTFOXED: Making My Blood Boil
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Have you heard about this report from Indiana University? Three grad students watch hours and hours and hours of footage of Bill O'Reilly and totally, SCIENTIFICALLY de-bunked the myth that he operates in anything that could ever be called a "No-Spin Zone."
Media Matters -- www.mediamatters.org -- had a link just the other day ... gotta check it out; it's amazing stuff.
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