Id be interested to hear what non US citizens thought of this movie

good point indeed, though completely irrelevant still a great way to counter another completely irrelevant point of "the us role on saving europe during the ww2".

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One of the sad facts about American life nowadays is that the parameters of "mainstream" debate are very narrow and strongly skewed to the right. This has been a problem for a long time, but became critical following the death of the Fairness Doctrine, the proliferation of right-wing "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, and the rise of right-wing hate radio (e.g. Rush Limbagh, Michael Davage, G. Gordon Liddy). Today, left of center views simply do not exist within the American mainstream, with the result that they barely exist within the US population. To get real left of center veiws these days in the US, one has to turn to the alternative or foriegn press.

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I watch Fox News on a regular basis. I live in Glasgow, in the UK and we get it through SKY (which I really should cancel given what I feel about Rupert Murdoch!).

I thought it was interesting but to be honest, you'd have to be an eejit to think that Fox news is "fair and balanced" or even journalism, let alone "real journalism". It is clear that, with a few exceptions, most Fox newcasters or anchor people (kind of semantics) are told what to say even if they don't believe it. Alternatively, they work for Fox because it provides them with a vehicle for their own political views and apparently no critical populace to challenge the veracity of said views. "Some might say" (They stole that from Oasis!).

It wasn't a revelation to me and I am suprised that anybody could be suprised by that. It is almost comedic in it's predictability. From my exposure to Fox news I am starting to think that America has no economy or social issues (oops, apart from gay people and black people). Just a big ol' country waging an endless "war on terror". ALERT! Thankfully, I have met enough people throughout the world to know that we are essentially the same - oft eejits, oft saints but neither one or the other dependent on our geographical status.

I don't live in America (in fact I have never been there)and I don't know very much about journalism so perhaps previous posters make some valid points when they talk about a perception of a pre-existing 'liberal bias' in other news networks. It does raise questions about the potential benefits of a publicly funded (and thereby, publicly accountable?) broadcaster. I would never claim that the BBC is without political bias though. I just think people get more annoyed about it cos they pay for it.

I also wonder if the days of propaganda masquerading as news is short lived with the global communications revolution? I think it's an interesting idea. From whence do we form our views or have them challenged? For me, it's t'internet, not the TV.

What was more interesting was the presentation (backed up by the often anonymous testimonies of previous employees), that harassment and bullying of employees who failed to tow the party line; was common place. I can stop hating everybody who sells their soul and compromises their journalist integrity to work on Fox news now after watching this. Don't they have Trade Unions?

That's about it. Nothing new but I am grateful that some people may have learnt something new from it and I hope that it raises questions amongst Fox viewers, if not their sponsors!

I wathced this the first time back in 2006 for English Communications, i had heard of FOX news, Newscorp and of Course Rupert Murdoch ( The guy comes from my home state South Australia, and basically started our news paper company thats still running)After watching it, me and my mate paul could not stop laughing at Bill O'Reilly, we just kept yelling SHUT UP at people that pissed us off. Then i got home, and put on FOXTEL (yeah, ironic huh!) it's our version of cable in Australia owned by FOX. I put it on FOX NEWS and watched Bill for a bit, talking about something in America, theni swithced it over to Channel 10 news, a channle i actually trust. And i can see the difference straight away.

I was also however suprised that my local newpaper owned by Newscorp did'nt say the stuff liek FOX news does and in their style. Basically i belive the Australian people want their news the way they want it, the proper way, not like FOX news which is actually never watched in Australia, i can gaurntee that. I sort link the style of FOX news to those pathetic and very very crap gossip magazines that you see a lot of women read, you know which ones iam on about, the ones that talke about which washed up actor is with who and the pathetic tales that Keira Knightly is anorexic. I easily see FOX news to be jsut a glorifed telvision version of those crap magazines.

But i got particulary upset when Dave Gibbons, a comic book writer, the guy who wrote WATCHMEN appeared on FOX, teh useless questions they asked that guy, just infuriated me!!

I truly liked this documentary. It scared me and made me feel sorry for americans. From an european perspective Bill O'Reilly and people like him make the worst nazi agitators like Goebbels seem like moderate liberals...

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