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You've seen Outfoxed; now check out MMFA's outing of FOX misinformation and get involved

• Rep. Sanders circulates Murdoch letter for congressional signatures

Contact your member of Congress today and tell them to join Congressman Bernie Sanders in signing a letter requesting a meeting with Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch about how to fix FOX News's unbalanced coverage

• FOX let the dogs out; Ailes asked: "Why does CNN hate America?"
• Progress Report: Chicago Tribune flags "O'Reilly's Gay Contradictions"
• O'Reilly: "FOX does tilt right"; said GOP "very uneasy with FOX" -- even after Cheney, Ralph Reed touted FOX
• O'Reilly renewed 2003 attack on Jeremy Glick, son of 9-11 victim
• Gingrich distorted Kerry's vote on Unborn Victims of Violence Act

Following the debut of Outfoxed, Media Matters for America intensified its monitoring of the FOX News Channel, documenting and correcting conservative misinformation in real time and holding FOX to its own "fair and balanced" standard. The MMFA team posted 15 researched items in just the last week exposing false and misleading claims on FOX, including Sean Hannity's distortions of John Edwards's Senate voting record; Brit Hume's selective use of opinion polls to make it look like the Kerry-Edwards ticket has less momentum than it does; Bill O'Reilly's misleading claims (twice) about Americans' support for banning gay marriage in the Constitution, and John Gibson's false claim that "80-some percent of reporters are self-described liberals." MMFA also analyzed 33 FOX internal memos written by top FOX executives, including guidance from John Moody, FOX News Senior Vice President:

Moody on George W. Bush:

"His political courage and tactical cunning ar[e] [wo]rth noting in our reporting through the day"

Moody on Sen. John Kerry:

"starting to feel the heat for his flip-flop voting record"

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• O'Reilly lied about Florida recount
• FOX's Cameron downplayed Bush's negative ad blitz; played up Kerry surrogate's attack
• Senior writer for National Journal's Hotline panned Outfoxed in The Weekly Standard
• FOX's "suburban stay-at-home mom"
• Special Report tag team: FOX's Barnes, Birnbaum, and Cameron took turns distorting Kerry's record
• O'Reilly cited "secret sources" to embarrass Dems, then blasted NY Times for reporting Bush rumor
• Barone accused "Michael Moore Democrats" of "rooting against America"
• FOX's Keenan: Wall Street would prefer Martha Stewart as VP over Kerry-Edwards '04
• FOX & Friends hosts ridiculed Teresa Heinz Kerry remarks, called her comments to children "bizarre"
• O'Reilly misled on gay marriage ... again
• O'Reilly lied about his French boycott ... again
• FOX News Channel teaser misrepresented Kerry's position on same-sex marriage
• O'Reilly misled with gay marriage poll; distorted Mass. ruling
• 33 internal FOX editorial memos reviewed by MMFA reveal FOX News Channel's inner workings
• CAP: Who is Rupert Murdoch?
• ALTERMAN: "Fox Outfoxes Itself"

• Project 21 FOX guest compared NAACP to KKK
• FOX News' John Gibson's false claim: "80-some percent of reporters are self-described liberals"
• FOX & Friends' Republican bias trifecta
• O'Reilly defended Bush by distorting Intelligence Committee report
• FOX's response to Outfoxed charge of "bias toward Republicans": "FNC denies the claim"
• Hannity: Kerry "chose the number-four liberal in the Senate" for VP; "Is that why there's no Edwards bounce in the polls?"
• FOX's Brian Wilson distorted Kerry connection to Lay and Enron
• FOX selective in Kerry-Edwards v. Bush-Cheney poll reporting

External coverage of FOX:
• Gadflyer's Waldman: Outfoxed succeeds in discrediting FOX
• WSJ: "Liberals are fighting back" against FOX News
• E&P: Interest groups target FOX News trademark
• CAP: UK communications regulator finds FOX News's Gibson made "false statements by undermining facts" • Roll Call: Rep. Sanders Hosts Airing of Outfoxed (by subscription)
• Robert Greenwald discusses Outfoxed on CounterSpin
• Georgetown Law Professor: My First (and Last) Time With Bill O'Reilly
• Cablenewser: Senior FOX employee says network "let[s] the GOP off easy, and pound[s] the Democrat du jour"
• CAP: "Proof That Fox is a GOP Machine"
• MoveOn, CAP announce new documentary: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
• FAIR Special Report: FOX "still failing the 'Fair & Balanced' test"
• Watch clips from Outfoxed

Posted to the web on Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 12:39 PM ET