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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: Fox News coverage of the London Bombings |
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Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bombs.
Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the channel's Washington managing editor, said: "Just on a personal basis ... I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought 'hmm, time to buy'."
The host of a Fox News program, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks had the effect of putting terrorism back on the top of the G8's agenda, in place of global warming and African aid. "I think that works to our advantage, in the western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened."
Another Fox News host, John Gibson, said before the blasts that the International Olympic Committee "missed a golden opportunity" by not awarding the 2012 games to France. "If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?" He added: "This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics - let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while."
Media Matters for America, a watchdog and frequent critic of Fox, criticized the comments on its website. "I think it's absolutely sickening three Fox anchors had such callous reactions to the bombings that took dozens of lives," said the Jamison Foser, of the group.
The Fox News media relations office had not responded by the time the Guardian went to press yesterday.
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| If John Gibson really said that he should be fired. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Why should he? This sort of rhetoric plays well with the NASCAR crowd. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Media Matters for America, a watchdog and frequent critic of Fox, criticized the comments on its website. "I think it's absolutely sickening three Fox anchors had such callous reactions to the bombings that took dozens of lives," said the Jamison Foser, of the group.
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In fairness, Gibson's comments weren't a resposne to the bombings, because they were uttered before the bombings took place. But still, a pretty stupid thing to say. |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| I looked all over the wires at yahoo news and could not find any news article confirming these comments. And believe me, I wanted to. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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part of John Gibson's reply:
"But I am tired of it, and I was very happy New York didn't get the Olympics. We've already dealt with big political conventions and other big events which conventional wisdom has said are tempting terror targets.
So we've been on high alert for a long time, and you know what? It's somebody else's turn and, frankly, I'm sorry London is in for our high alerts. I did wish it were Paris.
Why? Live like we do and see how you like it, France. You're the guys who said, "They deserved it" after 9/11 (search). And I haven't forgotten.
So when I said, perhaps rashly, they'll blow up Paris, and who cares, I didn't mean they should blow up Paris. Obviously, in light of the fact they are blowing up cities again, I would care.
But let's put this in perspective. The Guardian newspaper blasted me on Saturday. Monday they're running an article from one of their other America haters who is saying the reason Britain was targeted is the war in Iraq, so it's Blair's fault. But really blame Bush and America.
So it's never the actual terrorists fault. After 9/11 it was America's fault and after the London bombings it's the fault of Blair, Bush, and now me and FOX News."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162189,00.html
What a c-word. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Good post, Smee. I hadn't seen that yet.
In the good old days politicians and other public figures could say nasty things about foreigners, knowing full well the foreigners would never know. These days with media being internationalized, those days are over.
I wonder if it will make any difference. One can only hope. |
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nasigoreng
Joined: 14 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:51 am Post subject: |
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Missed Opportunity
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
By John Gibson
You may have noticed the news out of Singapore Wednesday:
The host city for the 2012 Olympics (search) was picked. New York was out early and that was a big relief to me, personally. I think New York needs a rest from big events. All that security wears on you.
Then it was down to Paris and London. And the Olympic big wigs picked London.
All day long people have been saying to me, "Wasn't it great they didn't pick Paris?" And I've been saying, "No, no, no."
Paris was exactly the right place to pick and the Olympic committee screwed up.
Why? Simple. It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn't have had to worry about terrorism.
First, the French think they are so good at dealing with the Arab world that they would have gone out and paid every terrorist off. And things would have been calm.
Or another way to look at it is the French are already up to their eyeballs in terrorists. The French hide them in miserable slums, out of sight of the rich people in Paris.
So it would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already.
What would the French have done about rounding up their own citizens?
Would they have afforded their own terrorists the rights they insist we give the detainees at Gitmo? Not a chance. They'd throw them in the clink, or ship them off to North Africa pronto.
Would they have blocked terrorists at the border with unreasonable search and seizure — precisely what they say we should not do? Of course they would. Anybody looking faintly Arab would have had the gendarmerie on them in a flash.
It would have been a delight to have Parisians worried about security instead of New Yorkers. It would have been exquisite to watch.
But, alas, they picked London. I like the Brits. I like London. I hate to see them going through all this garbage when it would have been just fine in Paris.
C'est la vie. Goes to show the Olympic committee doesn't recognize the perfect opportunity when it presents itself.
That's My Word.
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After reading the original context, his statements appear only insensitive and obnoxious, not quite as twisted and sadistic as the media links try to make him.
John Gibson is saying that France criticizes the US for how it's dealing with the problem of terrorism so it would be nice to see how well they could deal with the same problem. He doesn't have to say it nicely |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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I find it disturbing that people justify other people's a-hole behaviour.
Listen dudes, there is a right and "wrong" way to say things. I mean, he has freedom to say it, but why is it that monkey brains like this dude end up getting more airtime than ugly smarter people who can say things better like? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| It would have been a delight to have Parisians worried about security instead of New Yorkers. It would have been exquisite to watch. |
Watching people beset by terrorism = exquisite. Okay.
Let's say this Gibson is in Paris for 2012 and they are having the Olympics. He notices a few suspicious people going into the subway; it looks like they might be planning to blow the place up. But it's Paris and it would be exquisite to see them get hit. Would Gibson tell the authorities? Does he really care about terrorism itself or would he like to see it happen here and there if it would help him make a point? |
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