"Outfoxed"

In the Film Outfoxed we encounter a grand variety of information explaining what the media really is, specifically focusing on Fox channel’s prominent role. Furthermore it depicts Rupert Murdoch as a biased politician whom uses the media sources as a means of embedding his Republican ideologies in order of persuading his political agenda. By portraying the subjectivity by using opinions based on reliable sources that exist within the core of Fox news, we can infer that the director is turning the veil that exists within the audience and Fox; with facts and evidence he successfully enables us to comprehend the compositional techniques that are repeatedly used in order of persuading the audience into propagandistic journalism. What I found interesting was that the director also implemented marketing maneuvers that are used, for example music specialists explain how music tunes can bring a sense of urgency which in turn subconsciously delivers a reaction.          

  furthermore they explain how such techniques are now being used in matters that are quite unimportant or better yet irrelevant news. But why would they do this? In my opinion it is quite clear that these techniques are being used in order of distracting viewers from important political issues and clearly a technique which leaves the viewer believing assumptions, so in other words the viewer is not deciding on what information to take but rather being subject to biased opinion. Not only are concepts and ideas biased but also at times facts are fabricated in order of projecting and representing an idea. The “some people say” is a perfect example of how anchors represent ideologies without professional sourcing in order of conveying an idea that has no credible facts. Although nationwide Fox is portrayed as an objective news channel this reality is far from being true, Bob Mchesney’s quotation clearly depicts our position as an audience and explains why such techniques have been quite successful” Is not that people think that they are being subject to propaganda, if people don’t think that, they aren’t looking for that, they are much easier to propagandize, and that’s the genius of our media system” Outfoxed (2004). In the preceding quotation Mchesney states and successfully compares the Soviet Unions authoritarian regimen to the corporate controlled media.

             

In subsequent this corporate control over the media is not only a major political matter but it has lead the media industry into the hands of a few corporate elites who not only control the influx of information but determine what we see on TV, read on the newspaper, internet, and magazines. As a society it is time to comprehend that nothing of what we see on Fox or a vast amount of other Channels is truly objective or true, since most of the information is subjective. Knowing that the media is controlled by a 1-3% of the corporate elite we should realize that most of the evidence produced or inferred is no other but mere opinion and based on a particular political agenda.