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...main long-term danger to the U.S. is increased reliance on foreign oil. Many business leaders and politicians have taken note that ultralow oil prices are threatening to stunt domestic production. Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler, sees the peril of another oil shock. Says he: "We've been burned twice before, and we see the elements of No. 3 taking shape." ... The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate...
Meanwhile, the dark irony of Outfoxed is that its worst offenses are journalistic, not cinematic. Greenwald splices his interview subjects to shreds, constantly cutting their words even as they ostensibly provide important evidence. The effect is the visual equivalent of a sea of ellipses. The practice is prevalent enough to cast doubt on the veracity of the comments (Were they taken out of context? Why can’t we see them uncut?), not an advisable tactic when the subject in question is an allegedly biased and slanted news network...
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...
...Greenwald also interviews a kennel of liberal media watchdogs, but does not include, say, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Dean Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 (also a former Crimson president), who has offered a more tempered view of Fox’s problems. How are slanted statistics and experts like these any different from those used on “The O’Reilly Factor?...
...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...