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We're excited to hear your thoughts on the movie, particularly if you work for Fox News. Please send your letters to
. We might publish it here, so please specify if you wish to be anonymous.
From an anonymous current Fox News employee:
I have noticed that our editorial memos have been toned down a bit as of late...I think Fox is trying to disprove your facts by changing guests and anchors' adlibs right now. I'm sure they realize that because of all the recent concentrated press, people who normally might not be watching are watching. So maybe they want people to say, hey Fox isn't that bad. The watchers not knowing that Fox is only playing nice for right now.
From an anonymous current Fox News employee:
So I just watched your DVD, which I bought about 2 wks ago on the internet, and well....
two words: "Thank You"
It was nice to see that there were others out there that were feeling the same things I had been feeling since the war began.
I graduated from journalism school four years ago and feel like I have a pretty good grasp of what "journalism" is. Fox is not journalism. Fox is what Bernie Sanders says it is.
You look at Fox, you look at Bush, you look at Ken Lay...they're all saying the same things, sometimes line for line. Anyway, I hope your movie penetrates and leads to some changes.
This isn't, or at least shouldn't be, about politics. It should be about journalism.
From an anonymous former foxnews.com employee:
After spending nearly two years working at FNC, what I saw in "Outfoxed" was
pretty much dead-on accurate. The documentary never loses track on the focus
-- how Fox butchers, manipulates and blatantly corrupts journalism, no
matter what angle or spin they take. An opposing, leftist agenda could have
easily run its course throughout the film, but the scope always remains on
Fox's impact on journalism and news reporting.
As for memos I saw at Fox, there are too many to recall. One stating we were
not to call fighters in Iraq "insurgents," that we would call them
"terrorists" because they are not a uniformed army (even though they were
fighting one). Any Associated Press article challenging or questioning a
Bush administration issue was labeled as "unfair and unbalanced," and got
dubbed "unfoxxy"... or in other words, not aligned with the Fox agenda. When
Rush Limbaugh ran into trouble with ESPN and drugs, we were told to never
label him as a conservative or right-wing radio host. However, Al Franken or
Michael Moore never get shown without being called a "liberal nut" or
"left-wing activist."
Often, it's not what they say that makes them Fox. it's what they choose to
leave out.
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