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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Duration:

75 min | USA:78 min | Argentina:88 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Genres:

Documentary

IMDB rate:

7.7

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Details

Country: USA

Earnings

Budget: $200,000

Opening Weekend: $78,054 (USA) (8 August 2004)

Gross: $237,277 (USA) (22 August 2004)

Cast

Actor

Character

Roger Ailes

Himself (archive footage)

Eric Alterman

Interviewee

Christiane Amanpour

Herself (archive footage)

Harry Belafonte

Himself (archive footage)

David Brock

Interviewee

Tom Brokaw

Himself (archive footage)

George W. Bush

Himself (archive footage)

Carl Cameron

Himself (archive footage)

George Carlin

Himself (archive footage)

Neil Cavuto

Himself (archive footage)

Douglas Cheek

Narrator

Dick Cheney

Himself (archive footage)

Richard Clarke

Himself

Jeff Cohen

Interviewee

Alan Colmes

Himself (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Himself

Laurie Dhue

Herself (archive footage)

Steve Doocy

Himself (archive footage)

Jon Du Pre

Himself

Susan Estrich

Herself (archive footage)

Al Franken

Himself (also archive footage)

Newt Gingrich

Himself (archive footage)

Jeremy Glick

Himself (also archive footage)

Sean Hannity

Himself (archive footage)

Brit Hume

Himself (archive footage)

Molly Ivins

Herself (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

Himself (archive footage)

Ted Kennedy

Himself (archive footage)

John Kerry

Himself (archive footage)

Brian Kilmeade

Himself (archive footage)

Mike Malloy

Himself (archive footage)

Rupert Murdoch

Himself (archive footage)

John Nichols

Himself

Bill O'Reilly

Himself (archive footage)

Dan Rather

Himself (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Himself (archive footage)

Condoleezza Rice

Herself (archive footage)

Geraldo Rivera

Himself (archive footage)

Martin Sheen

Himself (archive footage)

Shepard Smith

Himself (archive footage)

Jon Stewart

Himself (archive footage)

Cal Thomas

Himself (archive footage)

Greta Van Susteren

Herself (archive footage)

Linda Vester

Herself (archive footage)

Av Westin

Himself

Did you know?

Trivia

On 18 July 2004, a network of "house parties" premiered this film on DVD throughout the USA. The screenings were synchronized to begin at 9:20 PM Eastern time, and afterwards, a two-way communications link via computer was used to voice opinions and interview several of the people involved in the documentary's production.

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The director, Robert Greenwald, used a clip from Eric Clapton's song "Layla" for the film's closing credits in a rough edit, and then read in a magazine interview that Clapton had a long-standing hatred of Rupert Murdoch. He approached Clapton for permission to use the song in the film, and he granted its use... for free.

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Certain Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia refused to run ads for theatrical screenings of the film claiming that the ads were "offensive". The newspapers were not satisfied with the ads until they were pared down to the bare title of the film (without the tagline "Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism"), the name of the theatre and the session time(s) with no accompanying artwork.

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Quotes

Bill O'Reilly: I'm not a right-winger, I believe in global warming!

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Bill O'Reilly: [after interviewing Jeremy Glick] This is our house here. If somebody comes to your house and begins spitting on the floor, you'd remove them!

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Jeremy Glick: The executive producer and the assistant encouraged me to leave the building because they were quote "concerned that if O'Reilly ran into me in the hallway, he would end up in jail!"

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