What's this? Fox News guilty of failing to show ""respect for truth"." Shocking, but true. The Guardian reports that British television regulators found Fox violated British broadcasting rules when:
Fox presenter, John Gibson, said in a segment entitled My Word that the BBC had "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest"; that the BBC "felt entitled to lie and, when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives"; that the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, in Baghdad during the US invasion, had "insisted on air that the Iraqi army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military"; and that "the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie - exaggerate - because, well, the BBC knew that the war was wrong, and anything they could say to underscore that point had to be right".
Even though Fox may have "achieved a level of accuracy and impartiality that was appropriate to its audience in the US, where different rules apply" Gibson's rant, "because of its lack of basis in fact," would likely not have passed more relaxed standards Britain may adopt for foreign broadcasters.
Seems to me that a lie is a lie regardless which side of the Atlantic it comes from.
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