Outfoxed.

Reviewing Robert Greenwald's Outfoxed in Salon, Andrew O'Hehir opens with a dead-on parody of Foxspeak before the but-seriously part:

As media critic Robert McChesney says in the film, it is much easier to propagandize a public that believes in its own freedom, and does not expect propaganda, than it was in a Soviet-style system where people were always suspicious of official pronouncements. In that context, it's no longer accurate to haul out the tiresome leftist chestnut and refer to a development like the rise of Fox News as 'Orwellian.' It's subtler, lusher, more sweeping and far more effective than anything Orwell ever imagined.

Via Movie City News, a report from Editor & Publisher on the press conference during which Fox News launched a rebuttal to the film as well as "a full-frontal attack on The New York Times."

Brian Brooks thoroughly covers both Greenwald's and Fox's press conferences in more detail for indieWIRE. And Brian Clark has a few more pointers.

This Friday (July 16), there'll be a screening at San Francisco's Victoria Theatre at 7 pm, followed by a Q&A with Greenwald at 8:30 pm, an event sponsored by AlterNet, Media Alliance and Global Exchange. You can, of course, also buy the DVD at the official site and we also have copies to rent.

Posted by dwhudson at July 13, 2004 2:18 PM