BRAVE NEW FILMS – In The Media

By Eric Benson for New York Magazine. 

Outfoxed director Robert Greenwald, ten years on. 

Why did you feel like you needed to make Outfoxed?
In 2004, many observers had already concluded that Fox News wasn’t “fair and balanced.” I remember a lot of people back then, including many liberals, would say, “Yeah, Fox News has one or two biased commentators, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, but as a news station they’re legit.” And what we set out to do was to show that, in fact, the entire Fox News was not a news organization. The goal was not just to change that narrative but to change the impact that Fox News often had on legitimate journalists. Editors and reporters would say, “Well, Fox has done four or five stories about this thing or the other thing; I guess there must be something there.” Our job in showing that they had a political bias was to take away that impact from them. 

This segment originally appeared on November 19th on MSNBC's The Ed Show. 

By Rick Kisonak for Seven Days

Remember George W. Bush? Your memory might be hazy. He doesn’t come around much anymore. During the last election, the Republican National Committee kept him locked in a room. These days he likes painting childlike self-portraits in the tub. And Lord knows that brush on his Crawford ranch isn’t going to clear itself.

By Lynn Elber for the Associated Press. 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Laura Poitras' skill and boldness as a documentary filmmaker have gained her Oscar and Emmy nominations, Sundance Film Festival honors and a public TV showcase, even if her work fell short of making a "Super Size Me" splash.

By Dan Froomkin for the Columbia Journalism Review. 

Despite the recent blockbuster leaks about spying on the phone records of millions of Americans, and President Obama’s stated willingness to discuss the issues they raise, a front-page New York Times article on Tuesday asserted that “legal and political obstacles” make a vigorous public debate about surveillance and civil liberties highly unlikely.

Robert Greenwald joins Ed Schultz on MSNBC to discuss President Obama's counter terrorism speech and the far reaching implications of the CIA's secret drone program. 

On Monday, May 20th, Robert Greenwald was a guest on Geraldo, Geraldo Rivera's daily radio show.  Listen to Robert's segment below as he discusses the ongoing crackdown on the freedom of the press. 

By John Knefel for Rolling Stone. 

This week, it was revealed that the Department of Justice secretly seized two months' worth of private phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors. As this decision comes under increasing scrutiny, press freedom advocates say it's just part of a larger battle for control of information – one that they've been trying to sound an alarm on for a long time.

By Tom Cohen and Michael Pearson for CNN. 

Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that his decision to remove himself from the Justice Department investigation into a leak that led it to surreptitiously collect telephone records from the Associated Press leaves him unable to respond to questions about it.

On Sunday, May 19th Robert Greenwald, President and Founder of Brave New Foundation joined Central Ohio's 10TV for an interview on their program Capitol Square with Jim Heath and Tracy Townsend.