tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post2686375224364097357..comments2024-02-13T03:59:13.635+00:00Comments on Eat Electric Death: Fox News gets Fair and Balanced on the Beeb [shinji]Slimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-73744372852648996842004-02-04T23:50:00.007+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.007+00:00The Beeb could possibly have been accused of being...The Beeb could possibly have been accused of being anti-American at certain times - the infamous Question Time in the aftermath of 11/9 is one possible example. However, you see things like that and you have to start thinking 'well, can we really blame people?'The BBC's attitude to America is completely irrelevant to Hutton, as far as I know it was never even mentioned. The fact that this guy is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-30454634649648060992004-02-04T23:50:00.006+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.006+00:00Well exactly. The same fuckers that bang ceaseless...Well exactly. The same fuckers that bang ceaselessly on about how they're the bastion of democracy the world over (and frequently, how they invented it - sigh) and the shining example to the world... It's <b>this</b> sort of thing which makes even us, America's traditional allies, start to understand how the rest of the world comes to hate them.<br>The fact that there's enough people genuinely Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-60697558747996273482004-02-04T23:50:00.005+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.005+00:00The most deeply disturbing thing about this kind o...The most deeply disturbing thing about this kind of factually incorrent chest beating hyperbole is that you could fade it to black & white, change a few of the characters around & it could be being played by Mr Adolf & his leather coated friends. It goes directly against the very freedoms that the yankeedoodledandies purport to support so stongly. Jakboot/cowboy boot, what's the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-6398671950479121262004-02-04T23:50:00.004+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.004+00:00Gordon, you're a Scot living in the US. I don't th...Gordon, you're a Scot living in the US. I don't think you're representative of the people who would be watching that going 'Wooo ah!'. The point of this really must be, that there are people without half a brain that take that shit seriously and that is very disturbing.<br>I mean... The Sun and the Daily Mail kinda annoys and depresses me but it doesn't actually make fill me with dread on the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-30143670972033078962004-02-04T23:50:00.003+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.003+00:00I'd just like to point out that NO ONE with half a...I'd just like to point out that NO ONE with half a brain who lives in the US watches Fox News to be informed. They watch it for laughs. The whole 'fair and balanced' thing is a running joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-34024052119293947222004-02-04T23:50:00.002+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.002+00:00Preumably this is some sort of personal comment, e...Preumably this is some sort of personal comment, entitled 'My Word', rather than the Fox News channels main reportage. Sometimes extremists who spout lies are put on these sort of soap boxes on national TV. It sounded like an ill informed biased rant from someone who wanted to stir up nationalist fever for the war, and point the evil finger at the BBC as Yank haters. It almost smacks of a comedy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-57833366219573703612004-02-04T23:50:00.001+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.001+00:00There isn't a great deal to be said on the matter,...There isn't a great deal to be said on the matter, really. The guy is either a tool or simply playing to the nationalistic masses. Either way, it doesn't speak well for the state of American popular culture.<br>That said, CNN's reporting on the subject, whilst still critical, is at least reasoned. This gives me hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-22625895295650553052004-02-04T23:50:00.000+00:002004-02-04T23:50:00.000+00:00As has been expressed in IRC, I'm absolutely gobsm...As has been expressed in IRC, I'm absolutely gobsmacked. Not because I'd like to step up and defend the BBC, I'm one of their most fierce critics concerning the events surrounding Gilligan and David Kelly but this... this is just frightening.<br>They cannot believe this. Reasonably intelligent people must switch on the lights and man the cameras and VCRs, or at least people who are capable of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com