Outfoxed

Outfoxed is a very well made documentary that definitely makes it point in the first 5 minutes of the movie. There is not one part of this film that strikes me, but all of the facts presented in the beginning. I don't really ever watch news so I honestly don't know much about it, but I'm not sure how a news station can use a slogan of "Fair and Balanced" if all they do is attack liberals or simply don't include them.

The one figure that really stuck out to me is the fact that over the course of so many episodes in the Brit Humes show, 83% of guests were conservative and only 17% were liberal. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that that is not exactly fair and balanced. This movie definitely opened my eyes to see that you can't believe everything see on television.

This makes me wonder about all news channels. Fox News may be obviously biased and extremely influenced to the right, but what about other news channels? I know they can't honestly be completely impartial. But how skewed are other channels? It's just interesting that today, we are so reliant on the media to deliver us honest facts to help us to decide what it is that we need to know, but clearly it is hard to trust what you hear on television from the news.