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I graduated from Emerson School for the Visual & Performing Arts as an Honors Theatre Major.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Out of Fox...Out of a Job???

As I watched the film, Out of Fox, I was surprised by the information I was digesting. In my home, Fox was one of the main stations we relied on for truth and real Journalism but as I watched I learned differently. Fox News is conservative? Their anchors have no control over what they report? and they blackmail and blackball their employees if they quit? I would've never guessed any of this. I was never into nor did I possess knowledge about certain networks being left or right. I actually just learned what that meant in my New Media Class. Therefore me coming from a blind perspective, was assuming that Fox was the way to report news but just more entertaining and "contemporary" if you will.
I even second guessed the film. "Maybe who ever produced this movie is just very persuasive with their information or the way that they produce," I thought. But not at all. The video had real anchors and other employees that worked for Fox News telling inside information. They all expressed how they weren't able to report the stories they felt was "real news" and that the stories they were given, they were told what and how to say all of it. Is that Freedom of the Press? NO. Is that freedom period? NO. I would feel like a prisoner behind my own desk.
This scares me. As a budding Journalist, there's enough stress of worrying what networks and newspapers will exist by graduation but now you have to worry about your well being at that job and whether it'll break you, not because of creativity but instead because of possession and fear of broken confidentiality. There are only a few owners to the millions of stations and networks, so how would you know who to work for? How do we know who's to the right or left if there isn't a movie such as Out of Fox, unless we live it ourselves? We won't. When will Journalism get back to the News and the people? Only time will tell.

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