No one familiar with the Fox News Channel is likely to find anything terribly shocking about activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald's expose of the enormously successful and highly influential 24-hour cable news network, but Greenwald skimps on the larger issue: media consolidation and corporate influence on media regulation. Critics have long complained about what they perceived as the channel's conservative bent ever since media mogul Rupert Murdoch founded FNC in 1996. Even then it came as no big surprise: Murdoch, the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation (a parent company of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.) had long been an ardent Reagan admirer who never kept h...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
77 mins