The New York Times Magazine
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/ma...123200&en=66c9
8aeae115de49&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE) this weekend previewed the new movie "
Outfoxed (http://www.outfoxed.org/) " -- a documentary analyzing Fox News,
sponsored by American Progress and MoveOn.org. The movie will premier in New
York City Tuesday night, and, according to the LA Times, MoveOn will promote
the film at house parties across the country on July 18
(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0704-01.htm) . Featuring
"interviews with former Fox employees and leaked policy memos written by Fox
executives," the film is "an obsessively researched expose" by Hollywood
director Robert Greenwald, who shows how the network "distorts its coverage
to serve the conservative political agenda of its owner, the media tycoon
Rupert Murdoch." In one scene, Fox News's chief White House reporter Carl
Cameron is shown hamming it up with President Bush
(http://www.newsignature.com/cap) , telling the president that his wife was
campaigning for the Bush-Cheney ticket. As LA Times columnist Tim Rutten
wrote, Fox has become "the most blatantly biased
(http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/insig...4_3025056,00.h
tml) major American news organization since the era of yellow journalism."
The movie highlights a trend whereby the broader right-wing media is
parroting the conservative line on everything from the war to the economy to
coverage of the presidential campaign -- leaving facts and objectivity by
the wayside.