outfoxed

Today we saw the movie outfoxed in class. I had seen it a couple years ago but it was good to see it again and remind myslef of the atrocities of "fair and balanced journalism" on fox. Media consolidation in my opinion is a huge problem because when the same information is broadcasted on many different t.v. stations, newspapers, and other media outlets that many people read and watch then nobody is really getting real news anymore. Or the news has a "spin" on it as O'Reilly would say, of course he is the biggest info spinner ever. In class I commented and a lot of others had similar comments about how our problem with fox network isn't that it is an obviously right wing scewed network, but the fact that they claim to be fair and balanced and blatantly are not. The main issue that I see with this is not people who are informed and watch fox, but those who may be watching fox for their news outlet and have no idea that the information being divulged is completely one-sided. Especially young people who are just starting to care about what goes on in the world and have not really formed their political opinions yet. Watching fox and similar news outlets may help mold their political positions differently than if they were really getting information from many different sources and opinions.