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Interesting article in the NYTMagazine about Robert Greenwald's upcoming documentary: "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism".
It not only shows the political bias of Fox News but also reveals information from internal memos to Fox employees on how to handle certain types of news. The distortion of news stories seems to be company policy.
Since Greenwald is using a lot of copyrighted material recorded directly from Fox it will be interesting to see, if this project survives the legal struggle that will certainly follow.
Other news networks have already denied permission to use their material in advance, because they don't want to be associated with "this kind of movie": Then there was the fact that several major news organizations were unexpectedly refusing to license their clips. (Such licensing is ordinarily pro forma.) CBS wouldn't sell Greenwald the clip of Richard Clarke's appearance on ''60 Minutes,'' explaining that it didn't want to be associated with a controversial documentary about Murdoch. WGBH, the Boston PBS station, wouldn't let Greenwald use excerpts from ''Frontline'' for fear of looking too ''political,'' it said.
Trailer available here.
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