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...part of the $10,000 he just lost in blackjack; a singer who wants Maloof to hear his act; a scary-looking guy who needs to borrow $500 for 24 hours. Not only does the guy not pay him back the next day but he also pops up on FOX's The Casino the following week. His name is Ernie, and he got kicked out of the Golden Nugget after convincing a young blond to work with him entertaining a high roller. Everybody in Vegas, Maloof explains, is looking out for only themselves. "You can't have a real relationship...
Remember when Friends was still around? Those were happier times for actors--when the ones with hit shows could band together and demand sky-high salaries from their networks. TV actors JORJA FOX and GEORGE EADS, longtime supporting-cast members of CBS's No. 1--rated drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, must have been clinging to that million-dollar dream when they recently asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed...
Furthermore, Outfoxed engages in some of the same tactics utilized by its antagonists. Greenwald holds up polls comparing the political beliefs of Fox viewers to those of patrons of public broadcasting. The numbers are alarming (nearly 70 percent of Fox viewers believed Saddam Hussein was connected to the Sept. 11 attacks, compared to 16 percent of PBS viewers), but causality is unclear...
...film’s troubles are only compounded by the fact that Greenwald did not approach Fox News for comment. His excuse? Fox “gets its message out every day,” Greenwald said at a press conference here last Monday. Perhaps, but a Bush-bashing story by any legitimate news outlet won’t run without White House comment, despite a press secretary’s daily briefings. Greenwald’s error is a grave one, and Outfoxed suffers...
Americans need to be exposed to these facts. Fox News’s persistent bias and manipulation is a clear and present danger to the viewing public. Too bad, then, that Outfoxed is a flawed, uninspiring film...