Outfoxed

Use your class notes to discuss the documentary, Outfoxed, by Robert Greenwald. Suggested topics: Jeremy Glick on The O'Reilly Factor, reporter Christiane Amanpour's claim that CNN censored its Iraq War coverage ("I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."), the injection of opinion into the news, the University of Maryland PIPA study (regardless of their political affiliation, Americans who relied on the Fox News Channel for their coverage of the Iraq war were the most likely to believe misinformation about the war--discovery of WMDS, Saddam Hussein-Al Qaeda connection, international opinion favored Iraq War).