Outfoxed

Not to be confused with Out-Foxed, a 1948 Droopy cartoon.
Outfoxed
Directed byRobert Greenwald
Distributed byMoveOn.org
Brave New Films
Release date
  • July 13, 2004 (2004-07-13)
Running time
78 minutes
BudgetUS$200,000

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary film by filmmaker Robert Greenwald about Fox News Channel's and its owner's, Rupert Murdoch, promotion of conservative views.[1] The film says this bias belies the channel's motto of being "Fair and Balanced".[2][3]

The documentary had a limited theatrical release,[4] was distributed in DVD format by the political action committee MoveOn.org, and was sold online through Internet retailers such as Amazon.com.[5] MoveOn.org had helped promote the DVD release by taking out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times.[5]

Following the release of Outfoxed, Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a related series of anti-Fox viral videos, collectively entitled Fox Attacks.[1] In an interview, Greenwald stated his goal in making the film: "What we set out to do was to show that, in fact, the entire Fox News was not a news organization. The goal was not just to change that narrative but to change the impact that Fox News often had on legitimate journalists."[6] Fox News criticized the film, saying that it constituted "illegal copyright infringement" for using clips of its shows and said that the film misrepresented the employment of four people identified as former Fox News employees.[7]

  1. ^ a b Blackwelder, Rob (6 October 2004). "OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism". NicksFlickPicks.
  2. ^ Hanley, Tyler (10 September 2004). "Outfoxed". Palo Alto Weekly.
  3. ^ Cracknell, Ryan (1 September 2004). "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism". Movie Views.
  4. ^ Turan, Kenneth (6 August 2004). "A network gets 'Outfoxed' through its own ideas, deeds". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ a b Deans, Jason (2004-07-21). "Fox News documentary tops Amazon sales chart". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  6. ^ "Director Robert Greenwald on 'Outfoxed' -- New York Magazine". NYMag.com.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference foxr1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).