Fox News Porn - the prurience of prigs
Fox News Porn is a collection of raunchy outtakes from the Fox "News" Network, where hypocritical prigs like Bill O'Reilly revel in prurience while condemning it. This condemnation is largely indistinguishable from a celebration -- as when Sean Hannity visits a brothel and asks snotty, explicit questions of the workers there while his camera lovingly pans across their bare flesh.
The site is the creation of filmmaker Robert Greenwald, whose documentary Outfoxed is a masterful takedown of the Murdoch empire. Fox News Porn created a brief but spectacular net-storm when an overzealous moderator for Digg took the site off the Digg front page and threatened to suspend Greenwald's account for violating Digg's Terms of Service. However, a day later, Digg management reversed the decision. In founder Kevin Rose's words, "Our fault. Digg on." Link (Thanks, Kevin and Pete!)
See also:
Iraq
For Sale: documentary about profiteering contractors
Movie
-- WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
Critical
Wal-Mart documentary to be shown in houses of worship
Uncovered:
War in Iraq torrents under CC license
Outfoxed
interviews .torrent for remixing
"Happy
Talk From Hell" -- Salon reviews Outfoxed
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