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About Outfoxed:
From the Outfoxed website Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
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After producing and/or directing more than 50 television movies, miniseries and feature films, director Robert Greenwald expanded his creative focus in 2001 to include documentary filmmaking. Inspired by the controversy over vote-counting in Florida, he executive produced the 2002 documentary, Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (directed by Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler), which has been widely seen in film festivals, on the Sundance Channel, and on DVD. The success and political impact of that project led Greenwald to commit to two additional "Un" documentaries -- Uncovered, which he produced and directed, and the upcoming Unconstitutional, directed by Nonny de la Pena, about the erosion of American civil liberties following the events of September 11, which will be released on the fall of 2004. Greenwald's television projects have included The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (CBS); Forgotten Prisoners (TNT) about Amnesty International; and Hiroshima (NBC). He also produced and directed the feature film Steal This Movie, starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60's radical Abbie Hoffman. Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four Cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute.
Jeff Cohen is a media critic and author who appears regularly on national TV. He has been an on-air contributor on all three cable news channels. He was a weekly panelist on Fox News Channel's media show, "News Watch," from 1997 to 2002. He was a commentator and "Donahue" senior producer at MSNBC, and has been a "Crossfire" co-host at CNN.
Cohen has lectured on campuses from coast to coast, including community colleges, Ivy League schools, historically-black colleges and most University of California branches. Prior to launching FAIR in 1986, he worked in Los Angeles as a journalist, and as a lawyer for the ACLU. His investigative articles ran in Rolling Stone, New Times, Mother Jones and other publications. He was a boardmember of several public interest groups, including the ACLU of Southern California and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference/L.A.
Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm that helps multinational corporations and financial institutions identify strategic opportunities, manage risks, and counter threats posed by terrorism and money laundering. Mr. Johnson is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management. From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, managing crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world. From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards. Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, The New York Times, CNN and the BBC. He was even employed as a Fox News Contributor during 2002. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976. |
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Robert
Greenwald: Producer, Director 
Jeff
Cohen: Media Expert, Founder of FAIR, Outfoxed Contributor
Cohen's
op-eds have been published in dozens of dailies, including USA Today,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday and Atlanta
Constitution. Cohen was a columnist at Brill's Content. For four
years, he co-wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat"
column with Norman Solomon. He is the co-author of a number of books,
including Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream
News and The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of
Error. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. 
Larry
Johnson: U.S. State Dept. Deputy Director of Counter Terrorism,
1989 - 1993; Counter Terrorism Analyst for Media and Business
