A little thoughts about the film "Outfoxed"

From my personal perspective, the film, outfoxed reveals how political figures and powerful celebrities go hands in hands with the mainstream media.

The film well presents the variety techniques Fox used to target innocent citizens’ political stand, by focusing exclusively on some influential issues. The 2000 President election and the Iraq war are the two examples. Through the whole process in the election, Fox utilized some kinds of ugly strategies as follow: confused poll which differentiate with the other networks, fake truth, words chosen to modify Kerry and Bush, the first one who reported the result, in order to let Bush be the winner

As refer to the Iraq war, Fox was like a bridge which made the Bush government easily change the tone and turned the terrorism “arrow” to Iraq. Moreover, It aimed at creating a “happy Iraq” image during the war so as to convince people that they were reconstructing a new Iraq. How funny!

Here are some of the techniques I jotted down from the film.

• Insert political ideas into journalism---which leads to biased news reports with no news judgment.
• Disproportional guests from the two parties---in total, Republic takes up 85% while 15% for the Democratic.
• Contradiction---by numerously saying “Some people said blablabla”. An expected debate happened.
• Generate fear/danger on unnecessary issues instead of the truly natural disasters.
• Those so called experts and strong people are indeed not at all.
  

In the end, the film concluded that “The more you look at it, the less you know about the truth and the more you support the government.

This is inevitable in the context of capitalism even in the socialism. But as we are aware of it, we can just stand up and make some noise. Don’t let the media colonize our imaginations and thoughts.