Fox Attacks
Fox Attacks is a 2007-08 viral video campaign[1][2][3]
designed to expose Fox News' alleged right-wing bias.[4][5][6][7][8] It was produced by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films.
Synopsis[edit]
After the production of Outfoxed, a documentary alleging Republican bias at Fox News, Robert Greenwald continued his anti-Fox campaign with short videos on YouTube concerning Fox News' negative treatment of Barack Obama during the 2008 election cycle.[5][7][3] Greenwald and Brave New Films went on to produce a series of more than 25 videos about Fox News coverage of a variety of issues, under the umbrella title "Fox Attacks."[9] These short videos[1] addressed Fox's coverage of global warming,[10] their perceived racial bias,[3][11] US involvement with Iraq and Iran,[12] and many other topics.
As part of the Fox Attacks campaign, BNF also released "open letters" to other media outlets, and circulated anti-Fox petitions which garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures.[13][14][2][6]
Reception[edit]
The videos have been viewed 15 million times on YouTube.[15] One of the series, "Fox Attacks: Black America," allegedly influenced the top Democratic nominees in the 2008 presidential race to boycott debates co-sponsored by Fox News.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bradley, Bill (21 March 2007). "Robert Greenwald's Modest Proposal". LA Weekly.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boehlert, Eric (16 February 2010). "Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press". Free Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tryon, Chuck (Summer 2011). "Digital distribution, participatory culture, and the transmedia documentary". Jump Cut.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Goldstein, Patrick (24 April 2007). "Satire busts a Hump". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Davies, Lyell (9 February 2011). "Expose, impel, and sustain change : the committed documentary In political life". University of Rochester Program in Visual and Cultural Studies.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Linkins, Jason (3 April 2008). "MoveOn, Brave New Films Urge News Orgs To Not Emulate Fox". Huffington Post.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Garofoli, Joe (1 May 2008). "Did top Dems make a dangerous right turn?". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ Bauder, David (25 Aug 2008). "Davis, Wolfson attending convention for Fox". USA Today.
- ↑ "Film Producers Robert Greenwald and Christopher Sprinkle Debut the 2009 Mediamaker Series" (Press release). California State University San Marcos.
- ↑ Newman, Andrew Adam (30 July 2007). "Environmentalists Push, but Home Depot Refuses to Drop Ads on Fox News". New York Times.
- ↑ Simon (16 September 2008). "How Greenwald's Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online". Public Broadcasting Service.
- ↑ Curran, John (22 August 2007). "Senator and filmmaker take on Fox News". AP. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ Sarno, David (9 April 2008). "Politics' video game". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Krawitz, Cole (24 August 2007). "Filmmaker Robert Greenwald and independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders launch online video campaign, denouncing FOX News". jvoices.
- ↑ Fox Attacks (video). brave new films.
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