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The Fox News view of the BBC. Americans are being poisoned.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday February 09, 2004 13:49author by David from Co. Dublinauthor email u82klein01 at hotmail dot com

The Fox News view of the BBC. Americans are being poisoned.

This is a very disturbing clip of Fox News coverage of the BBC and The Hutton Report. A 'fair and balanced' rant.

This is one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a while:

http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm

Fox News is the most popular cable news network in the US, and is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tycoon that also owns Sky News. Can we expect this kind of brain-washing from Sky News in the future?

Ironically, an expert research team at Cardiff University found the BBC's war coverage to be the most pro-war, and pro-government, biased of the UK broadcasters:

http://www.cf.ac.uk/news/02-03/030708.html

Here is an interesting article about the BBC's Director General's shock at US coverage of the war in April:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030425/80/dyib9.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/63348

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