The Fifth Estate - Sticks and Stones

Documentary that seemed to primarily attack Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and conservative networks/companies-- at times getting personal, while siding with people such as Al Franken.

It's my personal opinion this documentary is rather uninformative and boring-- presenting the poor people-serving "liberal" being relentlessly persecuted by vicious, right-wing attack-dogs who have serve evil elite interests. Most of the material presented can be found in the documentary "Out Foxed"-- including guests, news clips and opinions. I feel the idea of defending the media of liberal bias by pointing toward conservative bias misses the point: media companies are not trying to create programs because they care about reporting news, slanted or otherwise, to viewers-- they are trying to create large audiences to sell to advertisers; which is independent of reporting real issues. Why then does it matter if that information is "liberal" or "conservative"?


If you have limited time/bandwidth, you may consider these instead:

"Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"-- covers most of what's in this documentary

Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lieing Liars Who Tell Them"-- a much lengthier attack on O'Reilly, Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and others, more amusing then this production and just as devoid of useful content

Michael Moore's: "Dude, Where's My Country?"-- A more useful neo-liberal opinion, but more alarmist in presentation