Religions > Atheism > OT: Outfoxed: The movie that bit back at Murdoch's TV station
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"maff" |
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09 Aug 2004 03:01:57 PM |
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OT: Outfoxed: The movie that bit back at Murdoch's TV station |
Outfoxed: The movie that bit back at Murdoch's TV station
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/story.jsp?story=549326
Republicans reign on Fox News, while Democrats are pilloried. Now a
modest film hitting out at this imbalance is proving a big success.
Andrew Gumbel reports
09 August 2004
A few months ago, John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine,
was invited on to an American television show to defend his argument
that President George Bush should be impeached. Except this was not
any television show. He was to be questioned on a programme on Rupert
Murdoch's Fox News network called Hannity & Colmes. And that, as
anyone familiar with the gladiatorial style of America's most
unapologetically right-wing cable station knows, was tantamount to
putting his head in a lion's mouth and just waiting for the fangs to
sink in.
Mr MacArthur would have argued, had he been given the chance, that the
President had lied "on a grand scale" about the reasons for going to
war with Iraq. But he was not there to explain himself. He was there,
like countless guests before and since, to be ridiculed and
humiliated, as a perverse form of public entertainment.
Rupert Murdoch
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0312070254.5790ee4a%40posting.google.com
Andrew Gumbel
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0312160336.2b5c7467%40posting.google.com
Robert Greenwald
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Robert%20Greenwald%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Robert+Greenwald%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Robert+Greenwald%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Robert%20Greenwald&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Outfoxed: The movie that bit back at Murdoch's TV station |
17 Aug 2004 01:50:33 PM |
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maff wrote:
Outfoxed: The movie that bit back at Murdoch's TV station
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/story.jsp?story=549326
Republicans reign on Fox News, while Democrats are pilloried. Now a
modest film hitting out at this imbalance is proving a big success.
Andrew Gumbel reports
09 August 2004
Well worth a watch it is too.
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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