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{{short description|2004 documentary film}}
{{distinguish|text=Out-Foxed, a 1948 Droopy cartoon}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Outfoxed
| image = outfoxed_poster.jpg
| director= [[Robert Greenwald]]
| distributor = [[MoveOn.org]] <br />[[Brave New Films]]
| released = {{Film date|2004|07|13}}
| runtime = 78 minutes
| budget = [[United States dollar|US$]]200,000
}}

'''''Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism''''' is a [[2004 in film|2004]] [[documentary film]] by [[filmmaker]] [[Robert Greenwald]] about [[Fox News Channel]]'s and its owner's, [[Rupert Murdoch]], promotion of [[Conservatism|conservative]] views.<ref name=nicksflick>{{cite web  | last =Blackwelder | first =Rob | title = OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | work=NicksFlickPicks | date = 6 October 2004 | url = http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/outfoxed.html }}</ref> The film says this [[media bias|bias]] belies the channel's motto of being [[Fair and balanced|"Fair and Balanced"]].<ref name=paloalto>{{cite web  | last =Hanley | first =Tyler | title = Outfoxed | work= Palo Alto Weekly | date =10 September 2004 | url = http://www.paloaltoonline.com/movies/reviews/Outfoxed?review_id=1274 }}</ref><ref name= movieviews>{{cite web  | last =Cracknell | first =Ryan | title = Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | work= Movie Views| date =1 September 2004 | url = http://movieviews.ca/outfoxed-rupert-murdochs-war-on-journalism }}</ref>

The documentary had a limited theatrical release,<ref name=lat>{{cite web  |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |title=A network gets 'Outfoxed' through its own ideas, deeds  |work=Los Angeles Times |date=6 August 2004 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-06-et-outfoxed6-story.html }}</ref> was distributed in [[DVD]] format by the [[political action committee]] [[MoveOn.org]], and was sold online through Internet retailers such as [[Amazon.com]].<ref name="DVDsales"/> MoveOn.org had helped promote the DVD release by taking out a full-page advertisement in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="DVDsales">{{cite news|first=Jason|last=Deans|title=Fox News documentary tops Amazon sales chart|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1265986,00.html|work=The Guardian|date=2004-07-21|access-date=2007-03-29 | location=London}}</ref>

Following the release of ''Outfoxed'', Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a related series of anti-Fox [[viral videos]], collectively entitled ''[[Fox Attacks]]''.<ref name=nicksflick/> In an interview, Greenwald stated his goal in making the film: "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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/robert-greenwald-outfoxed-2014-2/|title=Director Robert Greenwald on 'Outfoxed' -- New York Magazine|work=NYMag.com|date=24 January 2014 }}</ref> Fox News criticized the film, saying that it constituted "illegal copyright infringement" for using clips of its shows and said that the film misrepresented the employment of four people identified as former Fox News employees.<ref name="foxr1" />