Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided. |

Plot Keywords:

Activism | Activist | Broadcast Journalism | Expose | Media

Cast

Roger Ailes	...	Himself (archive footage)
Eric Alterman	...	Interviewee
Christiane Amanpour	...	Herself (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte	...	Himself (archive footage)
David Brock	...	Interviewee
Tom Brokaw	...	Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Carl Cameron	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Carlin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Neil Cavuto	...	Himself (archive footage)
Douglas Cheek	...	Narrator
Dick Cheney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Richard Clarke	...	Himself
Jeff Cohen	...	Interviewee
Alan Colmes	...	Himself (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite	...	Himself
Laurie Dhue	...	Herself (archive footage)
Steve Doocy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Susan Estrich	...	Herself (archive footage)
Al Franken	...	Himself (also archive footage)
Newt Gingrich	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jeremy Glick	...	Himself (also archive footage)
Sean Hannity	...	Himself (archive footage)
Brit Hume	...	Himself (archive footage)
Molly Ivins	...	Herself (archive footage)
Peter Jennings	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Kerry	...	Himself (archive footage)
Brian Kilmeade	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mike Malloy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Rupert Murdoch	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dan Rather	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Condoleezza Rice	...	Herself (archive footage)
Geraldo Rivera	...	Himself (archive footage)
Martin Sheen	...	Himself (archive footage)
Shepard Smith	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jon Stewart	...	Himself (archive footage)
Cal Thomas	...	Himself (archive footage)
Greta Van Susteren	...	Herself (archive footage)
Linda Vester	...	Herself (archive footage)
Av Westin	...	Himself

Directed by
Robert Greenwald

Produced by
Laurel Busby	....	co-producer
Jim Gilliam	....	co-producer
Robert Greenwald	....	producer
Kathryn McArdle	....	co-producer
Devin Smith	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Nicholas O'Toole

Cinematography by
James Curry
Will Miller
Glen Pearcy
Richard Ray Perez		(as Richard Pérez)
Luke Riffle
Bob Sullivan

Film Editing by
Jane Pia Abramowitz
Jovan Bell
Douglas Cheek
Chris M. Gordon
Erin Kelly
Monica Kowalski
Hannah Williams

Production Management
Jason Ajax Mercer	....	post-production manager

Art Department
Ernesto Matamoros	....	graphic designer

Sound Department
David Hutten	....	sound
Mark Jasper	....	sound editor
Eugene E. Thompson	....	sound mixer
Chris Winston	....	post-production sound mixer

Music Department
Assen Stoyanov	....	music score mixer

Other crew
Nancy Anton	....	researcher
Christina Bradley	....	researcher
Ellen Brodsky	....	researcher
Judy Daubenmier	....	researcher
Chris Herrmann	....	researcher
Melanie Killinger-Vowell	....	researcher
Eleanor White	....	researcher
Deborah Yesner	....	researcher

Production Companies

• Carolina Productions
• MoveOn.Org

Distributors

• Disinformation Company (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Films Transit International (2004) (non-USA) (all media)
• ITV4 (2005) (UK) (TV)
• MK2 Diffusion (2004) (France) (theatrical)
• MoveOn.org (USA) (theatrical)
• MoveOn.org (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

75 min | USA:78 min | Argentina:88 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG | USA:Unrated | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Carolina Productions

Trivia:

On 18 July 2004, a network of "house parties" premiered this film on DVD throughout the USA. The screenings were synchronized to begin at 9:20 PM Eastern time, and afterwards, a two-way communications link via computer was used to voice opinions and interview several of the people involved in the documentary's production.

Quotes:

Bill O'Reilly: Shut up!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-02-01)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

These Days

Its easy: just don't watch Fox

The documentary, although flawed (which republican is going to actually view it with an open mind...?), has some major points and the annihilation of "journalism" as it is known elsewhere is made obviously.

What comes out as obvious is the fact that, as a person puts it, this form of control is even more vicious than authoritarian governments: leaving the people "free" of believing that they are indeed free and well informed is a machiavelic way of control. What is sad is that it works so well.

Watch it, just so as to make sure you never watch Fox (ever or ever again).