Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Scored from 43 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Robert Greenwald's independent documentary argues that Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel functions as a partisan political outlet rather than a news organisation. It builds the case from leaked internal memos by news executive John Moody, interviews with former Fox producers and reporters, and clips logged by volunteers who monitored the channel around the clock. Individual segments dissect the 'fair and balanced' branding, the 'some people say' phrasing used to slip opinion into news copy, and Fox's role in calling Florida for George W. Bush on election night 2000. Distributed on DVD and through house-party screenings, it is a work of media criticism assembled largely from Fox's own footage.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. It runs 1h 17m and carries a Not Rated certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Only 43 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 45 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 43.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
