Yes, it’s for real. Obviously it’s an opinion piece, but the underlying news story did happen. You can read about it from the BBC’s own website.
What are you asking?
Whether it’s true, or whether BBC reported it?
I’m asking whether THAT report is real. That can’t have gone out on mainstream american television!
Why not? It’s an editorial, not a news report. If newspapers can have editorials, so can television news networks. That was one particular pundit’s opinion.
Well maybe it’ll a little bit out of context, on that site. If it’s very clearly one person’s view.
Also… newspaper editorials relect the way newspapers report all their stories.
he’s very good! so, he isn’t an actual news reporter? because he should be.
Very real. You can read a transcript of John Gibson’s report here .
You can read the next instalment, dealing with the unsurprisingly outraged e-mail he got, here.
Amazing, ain’t it?
Yes. That’s because it’s an editorial.
Also… newspaper editorials relect the way newspapers report all their stories.
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Uh what? The New York Times regularly prints opinion pieces by conservative pedant William Saphire and by liberal airhead Maureen Dowd. All reputable papers at least make an attempt at some sort of variety in their opinion section.
Now, Fox News has a deserved reputation of being conservative (last time I checked, they usually air one token liberal point of view in the midst of Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, et al.) But I hardly see how it’s unbelievable or unusual for one of their braindead sycophants to blather obnoxiously about a recent controversial news issue.
[sub]I hope I was able to hide my immense distaste for editorial people well.[/sub]
Interesting how different the two threads turned out. Do people try this cross-posting thing often?
To answer the OP, yes, it’s a real piece of Fox rubbish.
It’s a grotesque distortion of the actual events, and in the other thread, to which Eleusis has linked, Dead Badger does an excellent job of summarising the pertinent details. The only point to add to DB’s excellent summary is that (a) Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch and (b) here in the UK, Murdoch has been campaigning against the way the BBC is funded (via a compulsory poll tax) for years, because he sees it as unfair vis a vis his own media interests. So it’s not a huge surprise to see Fox taking a dump all over the BBC.
Finally, a quick note to neoof. If you look at the stickies at the top of GQ, you’ll see a polite request to provide meaningful thread titles. With this thread, the title (Is this real) tells us nothing, and then we have to click on a link and wait for it to download (a long time if you don’t have broadband) and then play it before we have the faintest flying fluke of an idea what you’re asking about. Sure, nobody has to read this thread and busy people can just move on to the next, but there is a friendlier way of doing things which is also more in keeping with the spirit of the Boards and makes it easier for people to answer your question: provide a meaningful/descriptive thread title, and include a summary of what the video clip is about and what is said as well as providing a link for those who actually want to view it. Peace, and welcome to the Boards.
This idiot has already been pitted about this.
I’m all for op-ed, but not when it’s so inaccurate and distorted that it kills the truth completely.
** neoof**, posting the same thread in two different forums is called cross-posting and is not permitted. I’ll close this one.
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