News-speak - here at last

[GordonR]

Here's a horrible thing:  how the Hutton Report and the aftermath of its effects at the BBC were reported to the US viewers of the Fox Network.

Are the events they're talking about even in the same reality as the one we inhabit?

Link: http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm" target="_blank">Do they mean us?

[Art]

You have no idea how much this makes me want to leap through the screen and smash the guys face in with a brick.

[Generally Contrary]

I watch Fox News for much the same reason I read the Express and Mail - I want some anger flowing through my veins.

When the war started I did the most distastful thing I could think of - I took the day off and watched Fox News while eating nachos and drinking coke.  That was what we were meant to do, wasn't it?

[GordonR]

>>When the war started I did the most distastful thing I could think of - I took the day off and watched Fox News while eating nachos and drinking coke. That was what we were meant to do, wasn't it?

It's certainly what one nameless person here seemed to do.  How I still treaure their comment in the chatroom last March when they told us with a complete lack of irony, "I thought the second's night's bombing of Bagdhad was the most spectacular so far."

[Mr C]

And we're their allies because...?

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I refuse to believe that is anything but made up.

Please, someone, tell me it's a fake.

[Generally Contrary]

'cos if were not...

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

It makes the Sunday Post seem erudite. (Heh, not that I'm looking for a reaction)

[Generally Contrary]

Well, it is a Murdoch mouthpiece.

Murdoch, the man who suggested that the BBC should be forced to sell all its successful programmes to him at knock down prices.

[Generally Contrary]

Just that story

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3173269.stm" target="_blank">howling mad Murdoch

[Trout]

The Sunday Post is better than it used to be. Well, a bit.

Anyway, I can't hear that news report due to the lack of a sound card.

Any chance someone could transcribe a few sentences for me?

- Trout

[GordonR]

Yeah, you've got to view what that creep's saying in light of Fox owner Murdoch's long history of Beeb-bashing.

[hag]

thank god im a good girl!

Link: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp" target="_blank">http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

[paulvonscott]

That's pretty shocking and exactly what Murdoch would like to see in this country.

Rupert Murdoch HATES the BBC and wants it killed of ASAP.  In the meantime he'd settle for its programs cheap and believes that they shouldn't be allowed to make popular programmes.  As The Sun supports Tony Blair, it all makes for ucomfortable politics.  You can bet some of the current Labour government's proposed ?260 Million fine on the BBC will end up in his direction.

I boycott all Murdoch papers and refuse to get Sky.  It seems hysterical, buy I think Murdoch's a greater threat to democracy in this country than Saddam Hussein ever was.

Lastly that clip, infuriating though it was, is a sharp reminder of why we need the BBC.

[Byron Virgo]

Could someone summarise the Fox report for me, as I don't have any speaker or headphones at work and can't hear whats being said. Plus, I haven't watched a Fox channel since I 'broke' that TV when I was staying in this hotel in New York.

(My advice is to ignore these people and don't let them wind you up, as it only encourages them. Alternatively, try sending hate-mail to Rupert Murdoch. Thats what I did with Richard Littlejohn and it worked wonders for me.)