Overfoxed
- I ignore FOXNews and its factors. Watching Outfoxed last night was like receiving an oil tanker of AIDS-tainted blood, one 1/2-cc injection at a time.
- Greatest strength of the film: O'Reilly.
- Greatest omission: footage of Murdoch, O'Reilly, Hume and company as they decline to be interviewed for Outfoxed (assuming they were asked - were they?)
- Weakness: by attempting to subscribe to an idealized standard of journalistic objectivity, Outfoxed is constrained in its journalistic vocabulary. It can show, repetitively, Fox's various gestures - its scowls, its bullying Busholatry, its daily mantras. But it doesn't penetrate the character of Murdoch or his minions, because that requires interpretation, which could be construed as a departure from the veil of "facts." That would belie the standard imagined by the film's critique.
- Petition protesting Murdock's Orwellian trademark of "Fair and Balanced."
- Later: I propose that every blog, every media outlet, and every parrot adopt "Fair and Balanced" as a sobriquet. If Merdle sues, it'll bleed him dry.
- Greatest strength of the film: O'Reilly.
- Greatest omission: footage of Murdoch, O'Reilly, Hume and company as they decline to be interviewed for Outfoxed (assuming they were asked - were they?)
- Weakness: by attempting to subscribe to an idealized standard of journalistic objectivity, Outfoxed is constrained in its journalistic vocabulary. It can show, repetitively, Fox's various gestures - its scowls, its bullying Busholatry, its daily mantras. But it doesn't penetrate the character of Murdoch or his minions, because that requires interpretation, which could be construed as a departure from the veil of "facts." That would belie the standard imagined by the film's critique.
- Petition protesting Murdock's Orwellian trademark of "Fair and Balanced."
- Later: I propose that every blog, every media outlet, and every parrot adopt "Fair and Balanced" as a sobriquet. If Merdle sues, it'll bleed him dry.
posted by Tom Matrullo at Monday, July 19, 2004
2 Comments:
One of the pleasant features of the Directv satellite service is the ability to program one's remote so that only the channels one wants to see actually appear as one scrolls.
Thus I am able to live almost entirely Fox-free. I do watch the Seinfeld reruns on Fox's local Channel 5 in NYC, and sometimes I watch when the Fox Network carries the baseball game of the week (of course turning down the sound and tuning into the radio if there is coverage of the game audible here in NY).
But otherwise this feature enables me to deFoxify my viewing. This is an appreciated feature.
Hi Dean - my way is somewhat more primitive. I don't watch TV. But getting together last night with 30,000 others, including a few presenting actual atoms in Florida to catch this flick, was fun.
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