“Outfoxed” shows how FNC’s conservatism shapes programs

New York Times | IWantMedia.com
The most stinging blow that the new documentary, “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,” delivers to Fox News Channel‘s “fair and balanced” claim comes in a segment of the film on the daily memos sent to the Fox news operation by news veep John Moody, writes Robert S. Boynton. (Former Fox newsman Charlie Reina wrote about those memos in a letter to Romenesko last October. ) Robert Greenwald, who made “Outfoxed,” says he’s pleased with his finished product. ”I wanted to use Fox’s own words and images to show exactly what they do. Fox is a Republican, not merely a conservative, network.” (Read IWantMedia.com’s Greenwald interview.)
> Greenwald “makes no effort at fairness or balance himself,” writes Howard Kurtz. “Not only did he avoid contacting Fox, and indulge in some misleading editing, but the film also features a parade of the network’s liberal detractors — including Al Franken, Vermont Rep. Bernie Sanders, the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and out-of-the-closet liberal columnist Walter Cronkite.” (Washington Post)
> A Fox flack complains to Kurtz that the network had been given “only 24 hours” to comment for Sunday’s New York Times Magazine piece on “Outfoxed.” That’s wrong, says the author of the NYT Mag story. (Washington Post | Romenesko Letters)