Summary
It was bound to happen. Fox News is so popular with President Bush and his top people someone was sure to crack back. Al Frankel made one of the first stabs at it. Now comes a little-known filmmaker who has secretly put together what he calls a "guerrilla documentary." Robert Greenwald's movie, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," premiered last week at the New School University in New York and was seen throughout the country Sunday evening in private-home DVD screenings arranged by MoveOn, the liberal Internet organization that put Howard Dean on the map and now is raising money for Democrat John Kerry.
The movie includes extensive clips from Fox News programs, as well as interviews with former Fox staffers and Fox e-mails giving marching orders to its on-air people - all intended to show bias in favor of he Bush administration and the Iraq war. For example, when the U.S. Marines stormed into Fallujah in April, an advisory e-mail said, "It won't be long before some people start to decry the use of 'excessive force.' We won't be among that group." And on the 9-11 commission's investigation of the lead-up to the Iraq war, an e- mail said, "This is not 'what did he know and when did he know it' stuff. Do not turn this into Watergate. Remember the fleeting sense of national unity that emerged from this tragedy. Let's not desecrate that."See the full content of this document
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The film's $300,000 budget came largely from MoveOn and the Center for Am...
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