The part of Outfoxed I found to be most interesting in the film was Fox News' use of the truth. I found it particularly interesting that Fox News always uses truthful information, but then manipulates that truth. Fox News is all about the manipulation of truth.
The first idea that I thought was interesting was simply how they present the news. Fox News always uses real clips from press conferences and actual quotes that people have said, but they only use the part of the quote that allows them to frame their argument.
Another technique that I thought was interesting was Fox gettting rid of anchor people and producers who were presenting the news in a different way than what Fox News wanted. Fox News not only completely controls what they want people to know, they control HOW they want people to know it. After seeing the segment about the Reagan celebration, I remembered a segment that I saw earlier this year on the Daily Show about Fox News that I thought was funny and related to this topic. Fox News simply just pays the people that they can control and dictate what they say.
Though Fox News is completely sickening, I have to say that what is truly sickening is the fact that Americans are so lazy and so uneducated that lots of them simply just take this information in as though it is truth.
After I threw up for a while, I took time to step back and realize that Fox News is, in a way, genius. Rupert Murdoch is able to control millions of Americans on a yearly basis by simply manipulating truth, paying the right people, and taking advantage of a lazy, ignorant American public that will believe just about anything they see on TV because they refuse to read any literature (newspapers, magazines, even internet articles) about the world they live in.
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