July 15, 2004
Foxes And Spiders
From Ofcom, via plasticbag.org.
Fox News said that the BBC had appointed a special executive to monitor ‘pro-Arab’ bias at the network; that tapping the phrase “BBC anti-American” into Google resulted in 47,200 hits; that the BBC “continually bashed” American policy and ridiculed the American President; and persecuted Tony Blair because he was pro-American. (Emphasis added)
Does this make anyone else laugh? Seriously. Is there anybody out there that's not ridiculing the American President? I'm not sure I want to meet them. They obviously don't have a sense of humour. Or, say, consciousness.
Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering. "Fox News stupid"? Gets you 409,000. Stupid for trying to make a point using an automated search engine, obviously. Stupid for a lot of other things too from what I hear, the specifics and even generality of which I know next to nothing and am therefore not going to comment upon. Because I knew a lot about this matter, ahem, and am therefore qualified to provide glib critique.
I hope I don't have to point out that the rest of what Fox News said has also been suitably squished. Read the rest of the damn article. Squished like a puny arachnid, to give arachnophobes pleasant thoughts.
I'm off to watch Spiderman 2. Thought I'd mention that, just to give arachnophobes an unpleasant thought - seamless link, yes? I'm expecting to come back to a world with a level of intelligence and intellect sufficiently greater than this movie. This hopefully shouldn't be too difficult for the planet. Please at least try.
Guh, I should probably just avoid Fox News in future.
Posted by Missiedith at July 15, 2004 11:44 AM | TrackBackI did enjoy Fox complaining that the BBC had taken a report "at face value" given their 2000 election coverage. And people say American doesn't do irony!
Now there are two possible things that I'd enjoy seeing. Either that muppet eating humble pie or the BBC making a rather hilarious parody of his rants, using the facts of this hearing as the basis. I suspect either would have me laughing quite loudly.
Posted by: Kevin at July 15, 2004 1:10 PMDon't suppose Fox tried Googling for "bbc not anti-american" did they? That search currently brings up abour 48,200. Luckily I'm intelligent enough to know that proves nothing. ;)
Posted by: David at July 15, 2004 2:29 PM