Countdown: Fox News Caught Creating False News 11-15-06 (Includes "Outfoxed")

[Turborama]

Run time: 07:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0re-pybess   Posted on YouTube: November 16, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 25, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 606

 
"Countdown" host Keith Olbermann highlighted an alleged internal Fox memo sent to staff they day after Democrats took control of the Congress that told anchors to trump up stories against democrats and create fear to scare the public on his Nov. 15 2006 show.

He talked to documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald, who examined other similar memos put out by the network in his movie “Outfoxed.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750535/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/">This is a transcript from the show.

Here's Outfoxed (1hr 17 minutes)...

OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
1:17:41 - 3 years ago
Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428#

According to http://www.outfoxed.org/Clips.php">their website, this is freely available to distribute under the Creative Commons license.

Make your own movie! The Outfoxed interviews are available under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/">Creative Commons license allowing anyone to http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/09/outfoxed_interviews_available_for_remixing.php">sample them freely in their own works. Even Fox News. You can download them in high-resolution with http://www.torrentocracy.com/files/torrents/outfoxed_interviews.torrent">BitTorrent from http://www.torrentocracy.com/blog/archives/2004/09/outfoxed_torren.shtml">Torrentocracy, or in a http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=election_2004&collectionid=outfoxed_interviews">variety of formats from the http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=election_2004&collectionid=outfoxed_interviews">Internet Archive and http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=54FC814AE797FA21">YouTube.

From: http://www.outfoxed.org/Clips.php

[democracy1st]

1. K & R

[snot]

2. Necessary part of the cure: restore restrictions on media ownership

It's great to call the various individuals to account, esp. the higher-ups; but unless we change the rules of the game, plutocrats will simply buy control again with new faces.

[Turborama]

3. Good point

Maybe we can get Grayson, Franken, Weiner and Kucinich on it after the Health Care bill passes?