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==Reception== ''Outfoxed'' received positive reviews from critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has a score of 85% based on reviews from 60 critics.<ref>{{cite web | title = Outfoxed | website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outfoxed/ | access-date = 16 November 2018 }}</ref> [[Variety.com|Variety]] reviewer David Rooney wrote that the film "provides stimulating evidence of how thoroughly news can be skewed, political agendas served and a climate of fear created by a news net selling itself as an objective information service." He compares it favorably to [[Michael Moore]]'s documentary ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'', adding that without the "media spotlight" that surrounded Moore's film, ''Outfoxed'' "appears unlikely to reach beyond a [[Liberalism|liberal]] audience with an already vehement aversion to Fox News' partisan coverage."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117924372.html|title=Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism|work= Variety.com|access-date=2007-01-23 | first=David | last=Rooney | date=2004-07-12}}</ref> [[Howard Kurtz]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' praised Greenwald's uncovering of "...a handful of memos from a top Fox executive", which he argued suggested network bias over the [[war in Iraq]] and the investigation of the [[September 11 attacks]]. Kurtz was critical of how Greenwald's allegations relied on "orders, or attitudes, of an unnamed 'they'...", and was critical of the filmmaker for making "...no effort at fairness or balance himself."<ref name="Kurtz">{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |author-link=Howard Kurtz |title=Tilting at the Right, Leaning to the Left: Robert Greenwald's 'Outfoxed' Has Its Own Slant on Balance |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41604-2004Jul10.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2004-07-11 |access-date= 2007-07-20}}</ref> In the ''[[New York Post]]'', a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch's [[News Corporation (1980β2013)|News Corporation]], Megan Lehmann called the film a "narrowly focused, unapologetically partisan documentary" that "is so one-sided, it undermines its own integrity."<ref name="Lehmann">{{cite news |last=Lehmann |first=Megan |author-link=Megan Lehmann |date=2004-08-06 |title=Fair and Balanced, this Doc's Not |work=[[New York Post]] |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/fair_and_balanced_this_doc_not_EChJjh4XvZXkzW68hoK0PN |access-date=2009-10-11}}</ref>
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