The FOX trot

The film we viewed in class about the FOX network reinforced many thoughts I have previously had about the network. I thought the film was obviously a piece of propaganda, the producers were also obviously not on FOX’s side. Gathering and interviewing a group of professionals on a subject manner, to simply get information on the topic is a good strategy to persuade people. If viewing an interview and the reporter and the interviewee have a free flowing, informative interview a lot could be accomplished in the way of persisting viewers. Some of FOX’s reporters don’t really use this interview method. My title for this blog is the “FOX trot” which refers to the interview method FOX reporters use, or the trot right over what the interviewee is saying. The reporter I found did this the best was Bill O’Reilly, he really used his physical presence to dominated over the interviewee rather then free flowing informative conversation . In the film we would see Bill O’Reilly repeatedly cut people off mid sentence if they were heading somewhere he didn’t want the interview to go. From listing to broadcasts like the Bill O’Rielly factor it is evident to me that Fox really only wants to report what they want people to see or listen to, becoming extremely one sided kind of news.