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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism
A News Channel that labels itself "Fair and Balanced" should be unbiased in its coverage of news and events. After watching Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, I became convinced that the concerned channel had over time failed to appropriately inform and educate its viewers. Before watching the documentary, I had been an avid fan of Fox News.
Receiving an endorsement (however veiled) from someone should be regarded an honor. However, when the said endorsement comes from someone whose view of the issue at hand should be balanced and neutral, there is a serious problem. By digging deeper into Fox News' psyche, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism shows just how irresponsible journalism could get. For instance, in an attempt to discredit liberals, Fox News is accused of selecting liberals who appear weak and inarticulate to appear on it while at the same time picking confident and articulate conservatives. Guests having an opposing opinion are...
This way, the channel succeeds in defeating the liberal agenda and thus conveniently endorsing conservatives. This in my opinion cannot be regarded fair and balanced coverage.
After watching this documentary, I quickly came to the realization that the media could easily be utilized to distort viewers' perception of reality. Fox achieves this by encouraging punditry, promoting repetition of ideas, "repackaging" the news, fear mongering, and via the utilization of intimidation as a tactic to align both its workers and individuals who appear on it to its core political ideology. For journalism to be regarded objective, news reporters must be allowed to remain impartial in their coverage of news. They must not be coerced to report only that which is regarded proper by the top executives of the news firm they work for. The documentary in this case highlights several instances whereby employees were coerced to promote the political perspective of the channel. Those who failed to do…
it's just how one presents the numbers. Besides story selection, Fox News often picked information to present in stories in an effort to persuade viewers to hold a specific opinion. Proponents of such practices claim this was an example of Fox News being hard hitting and not kowtowing to the liberal media's agenda (Anderson, 2004). In an excerpt published in the American Enterprise from his book We're Not Losing
Currently, Rupert Murdoch's empire includes nine satellite networks, 100 cable channels, 175 newspapers, etc. It reaches some 4.7 billion people, more than half of the world's population. Despite claims to the effect that the network was to "restore objectivity," this has clearly not been the case. However, when one considers Fox against the rest of the media world, there is little that could be called 'objective.' Even reality shows and
The spin that often surrounds war, is fundamentally damaging even if it is intended as damage control for the nation as a whole, or at the very least the leaders of the nation. Public Belief It has been hinted at within this work that the old adage, the public does not necessarily believe what it hears, but it hears what it believes is at play when it comes to media. As
As with all other issues in media, it is up to the viewer of the information to decide which network to believe, and which network to trust as a source of unbiased, factual information. Since Fox News is undoubtedly the choice of a majority of viewers in the United States, it is obvious that those viewers have already made their choice. References Ackerman, S. (2001). The most biased name in news.