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David Cole
Iinnocuously enough. On Monday, June 21, a producer from Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor called to ask me to appear as a guest that evening to comment on a front-page anecdote in the Fresh York Times claiming that the Bush Administration had overstated the value of intelligence gained at Guant? namo and the dangers posed by the men detained there. I’m generally not a fan of shout-television, and I had declined several prior invitations to appear on O’Reilly’s indicate, but this time I said yes. Itsy-bitsy did I know it would not only be my first time, but also my last.
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I sat in the Washington studio as the taping of the exhibit began in Current York with a rant from Bill O’Reilly. He claimed that “the Factor” had established the link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and then played a clip from Thomas Kean, head of the Senate’s 9/11 Commission, in which Kean said, “There is no evidence that we can regain whatsoever that Iraq or Saddam Hussein participated in any intention in attacks on the United States, in other words, on 9/11. What we do say, however, is there were contacts between Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Iraq, Saddam–excuse me. Al Qaeda.”
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I was impressed. O’Reilly, who had announced his point to as the “No Rush Zone,” was actually playing a balanced soundbite, one that accurately reported the commission’s findings both that there was no evidence linking Saddam and 9/11, and that there was some evidence of contacts (if no “collaborative relationship”) between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Maybe all those atrocious things Al Franken had said about O’Reilly weren’t factual after all.
But suddenly O’Reilly interrupted, plainly exasperated, and said, “We can’t utilize that…. We need to redo the whole thing.” Three minutes of silence later, the point to began again, with O’Reilly re-recording the introduction verbatim. Except this time, when he got to the fraction about Kean, he played no tape, and simply paraphrased Kean as confirming that “definitely there was a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda.” The piece about no link to 9/11 was left on the cutting-room floor.
Now it was my turn. O’Reilly introduced the segment by complaining that we are at war and need to be united, but that newspapers like the Unique York Times are running biased stories, dividing the country and aiding the enemy. “The slide must stop–our lives depend on it,” O’Reilly gravely intoned. He then characterized the Times legend that day as claiming that the Guant? namo detainees were “innocent people” and “harmless.” He said the paper’s article “questions holding the detainees at Guant? namo.”
I illustrious that the Times had said nothing of the sort. And I pointed out that the article relied on a CIA inspect finding that the detainees seemed to be low-level and had provided dinky important intelligence.
That didn’t convince O’Reilly, however, who again criticized the Times for misleading its readers by terming the detainees innocent and not uncertain. I replied that he was misleading his have viewers, by exaggerating what the Times had said. “No, I’m not,” he retorted. So far, the usual fare on newstalk television.
But then I decided to go one step further: “It seems to me like the pot calling the kettle dim, Bill, because I unprejudiced sat here five minutes ago as you re-recorded the introduction to this prove to steal out a statement from the head of the 9/11 commission stating that there was no evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.”
Apparently O’Reilly does not like being called “the pot.” He exploded, repeatedly called me an “S.O.B.” and assured me that he would carve my accusation from the interview when the present aired. He also said I would “never ever” be on his explain again. At this point, I wasn’t clear whether to engage that as a threat or a promise.
Determined enough, when The O’Reilly Factor aired later that night, both Thomas Kean’s statement about 9/11 and my charge about O’Reilly deleting it were missing. All that was left was Bill O’Reilly, fuming at the liberal media’s lack of objectivity and balance, and ruing the divisive accomplish “pace” has on our national unity.
First, an admission. The Fox News phenomenon is rather recent to me. I haven’t watched TV news in years, preferring to sift through the newspaper or the best I could collect online from sources like Reuters and Associated Press. For me, the reason, outside of the annoying increase in commercials, was the endless parade of, “woe is me because the government ain’t taking care of me” stories. Outside of headlines of the day, practically every “focus” sage on the major networks had a distinct left-wing curved. I couldn’t stand the overriding feeling that I constantly was being told how I should contemplate, or more accurately, that I shouldn’t assume at all. So I tuned out – and missed Fox’s rise to fame or, I content I should say, notoriety.
How surprised was I to waft through the channels and leer this upstart news channel that wasn’t, well, dull! Flashy graphics, hot news babes and, best of all, people who weren’t apprehensive to mix it up with their guests. No more pandering and slobbering on the mic (Larry King) to glean a guest. If you started mouthing off, getting off track, or objective being an idiot in general, they would flat-out voice you to shut up (O’Reilly) . Distinct, there was a positive right-wing slant, you’d have to be a moron not to realize that. Some are so far apt they may have fallen off (Hannity) . I didn’t care. I was twisted! Then, slowly, after a couple of months of viewing, I started realizing something.
Those on the suitable never, ever, lose.
This was already in the succor of my mind, but it never became clearer than at Fox’s new coverage of the Democratic Convention. Here sits Hannity with a stack of prepared talking points and reference notes while the supposed liberal, Colmes, has a post-it tag or two containing some lickety-split scrawled handwriting. Colmes mutters something about not being ashamed to be a liberal. Hannity then proceeds to eviscerate not only Colmes, but three democratic pundits simultaneously. Sorry folks, but even at their maintain convention, the dems honest couldn’t compete.
There’s a reason why, and it’s why you should peer Outfoxed.
Outfoxed goes worthy deeper into the psyche of Fox News than honest the flashy graphics and the right-wing agenda. Among the movie’s claims, interviews appear to be legitimate or unbiased, while the graphics and headers on the bottom third of the mask often beget opinionated headlines. Off the cuff remarks are encouraged and any promoting the republican agenda or discrediting the democrats will accumulate you the “atta boy” after the segment ends. Many internal memos obtained, while not necessarily incriminating, do remark a positive agenda reporters needed to spend on stories or when talking to guests.
Even more appealing is Fox’s exercise of the term, “Some people say…” While other journalists may say this in order to reach a storyline without revealing the source of the information. Fox uses the term liberally, (pardon the pun), so their reporters can insert political conception instead of remaining just. Of course you can win which side of the political spectrum these opinions drop. As one writer explains, it’s not principal that Fox wins an argument. They simply need to muddy the argument to sustain the viewer in a region of confusion. This arrangement the viewer is unable to form a decision one scheme or the other which, to Fox, is as estimable as a victory.
Most racy, however, are the numerous times that people with a liberal agenda are simply outmatched. Again, there’s a reason for this. After 25 weeks of peer of the guests appearing on Special Represent (Brit Hume) in 2003, 83% of the guests were republicans. On top of this, the liberals appearing repeatedly on the channel are usually “faux liberals” that often agree with the conservative side after some debate. Actual liberals are rarely seen, shining liberals are rarely invited, and the ones who did place up a capable argument are usually not invited to return. Splendid and balanced?
Finally, numerous ex-Fox employees testify of the almost crushing conditions they experienced while working there. In one hilarious segment, ex anchor Jon du Pre relates how he was suspended because he was unable to bag anyone outside of a few people and a class of fourth graders celebrating Ronald Reagan’s 80th birthday at his presidential library.
Other reviewers have complained this movie is as considerable a propaganda portion as the news channel they’re attacking. Frankly, they’re fair. Repeatedly, conservative media outlets like Fox and Distinct Channel are railed against in this movie. Odd how no complaints were made against Viacom and Infinity (owners of MTV and Howard Stern.) The testimonies of so-called anonymous employees have puny credibility in my belief. And, once you reflect the backers and financiers of this film, the timing of this release during an primary election is certainly no coincidence. As one writer correctly states, the reason why our propaganda system is vastly kindly to the aged Soviet-style propaganda machine, is we don’t realize we are constantly being manipulated.
If you procure past the move to the left, you catch to the main reason why I recommend this movie. This movie made me explore that media concentration is a worse spot than even I originally realized (and I deem myself a cynic and skeptic by nature.) I certainly don’t want my news filtered by Murdoch any more than I want it filtered by Soros. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, the FCC’s relaxation of limits on media ownership severely limits the information you receive, not to mention the quality of the information, so that you may originate an fair belief. How can you do this when independent publications preserve getting silenced?
Ok, I gotta accelerate, Laurie Dhue’s on. Hope the review helped.
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