Saw this documentary last night; I believe my eyes rolled out of their sockets along the way somewhere. I honestly can't believe some of the things that were shown, and that's while *knowing* that the documentary is wholly biased.
"But those documentary makers are Michael Moore wannabes - they are only out to lie and distort their way to make Fox look bad!"
Just trust me on this - while some of the stuff shown in this documentary takes the cake, I've seen plenty of clips in the past few years that make Fox look bad, even allowing for the possibility that these are taken out of context. But bar o'Reilly, Hume and Hannity all being part of some hilarious sketch show and basically playing charicatures of rightwing loonies, I don't think there's any reasonable excuse for this partisan filth.
"Yeah, but it isn't just Fox - it's the same with all of the other news channels - and those are all Evil Liberals!"
If that's the case, then I feel sorry for the US on the whole. None of the things Fox pulled along the way is even *remotely* possible in my country (and probably in the rest of Western Europe as well); we simply don't have "news" or even "commentary" this partisan. Until a few years ago, I never realised that freedom of speech meant allowing pricks like o'Reilly or Hannity on the air, who seem hardly capable of respecting opinions that don't match their own, and make it a sport (especially o'Reilly) to interrupt their debating partners from making a point - up to the point of simply cutting off that person's microphone, or politely, but firmly yelling at them to "shut up". Seriously - if there's
any sense of justice in this world, there's a large, leatherclad brute with a moustache out there with rubber gloves that've got O'Reilly's name on them.
Either way - I'm not sure if it was meant to be this way, but this documentary seemed more like a hilarious bit of satire to me than an overview of a news broadcast station; I can't even *begin* to imagine the hilarity of being able to see Fox News 24/7.
