Fox News slammed over 'callous' line

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[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Guardian

[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bombs. [/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the channel's Washington managing editor, said: "Just on a personal basis ... I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought 'hmm, time to buy'." [/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The host of a Fox News programme, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks had the effect of putting terrorism back on the top of the G8's agenda, in place of global warming and African aid. "I think that works to our advantage, in the western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened." [/font]

<!--StartFragment -->[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Another Fox News host, John Gibson, said before the blasts that the International Olympic Committee "missed a golden opportunity" by not awarding the 2012 games to France. "If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?" He added: "This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics - let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while." [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Media Matters for America, a watchdog and frequent critic of Fox, criticised the comments on its website. "I think it's absolutely sickening three Fox anchors had such callous reactions to the bombings that took dozens of lives," said the Jamison Foser, of the group. [/font]

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Apparently fox news could not care less if innocent people in paris were to be murdered in bombings.

 

[docmercer--banned]

If Britt Humes kids died today in a terrorist attack, I would have no problems telling him to "get over it" like he told all the American families who have buried dead soldiers ...

Hume is a first class jackass ...

 

[CAPNCRUNCH]

Does anyone expect anything LESS from Fox 'News'? Bret Hume=Mr. personality!

 

[docmercer--banned]

Hume has long been the subject of controversy, as far back as the 1980s, when he played tennis with George H.W. Bush as an ABC reporter.

Hume also has come under fire more recently for comments made on air. One such comment was on August 26, 2003, regarding the loss of life during the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq:

<DL><DD><DL><DD><SMALL>"Two hundred seventy-seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that statistically speaking U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California, which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they're incurring about 1.7 deaths, including illness and accidents each day." [6] (http://www.wage-slave.org/archives/00000233.html)<SMALL> </DD></DL></DD></DL>Opponents attacked the factual accuracy of Hume's statement, pointing out that while someone in California has a 1 in 5.2 million chance of being murdered every day, a soldier in Iraq has a 1 in 113,000 chance of dying every day—46 times as high a risk. [7] (http://www.wage-slave.org/archives/00000233.html) Supporters emphasize Hume's pointing out an undue focus on Iraq casualties when California murder victims didn't get the same type of news coverage by the mainstream American media. (Franken Accuses Hume)

Hume has also been criticized for statements made June 2, 2004, on the Grapevine section of Special Report with Brit Hume:

<DL><DD><DL><DD><SMALL>"The Washington Post has reported that the Bush re-election campaign is using, quote, 'unprecedented negativity against John Kerry.' The Post says Kerry has so far aired only 13,300 ads in major media markets, while Bush-Cheney has aired more than 49,000. But the Post is only counting ads from the period since March 4, when the Bush-Cheney '04 team began its ad campaign. The Post fails to note that more than 15,300 negative ads that Kerry ran during the primary season, which means that Kerry ran nearly 29,000 negative ads, more than twice as many as the Post noted." [8] (http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200406030006).</SMALL> </DD></DL></DD></DL>In this statement, Hume criticizes the Washington Post report on negative political ads, saying that the newspaper ignored negative ads run by John Kerry. Hume says that the Post should have gone further back, counting negative political ads made during the primary season. However, even if the Post had done that, it would have showed that Bush had run 71 percent more negative ads than has Kerry in one-third of the time. Opponents charge that this statement by Hume was an attempt to mislead viewers, remarking, "Indeed, if Bush had been running ads at his current pace since Kerry ran his first ad, his current negative ad total would be approximately 147,000 -- 413 percent greater than Kerry's current total" [9] (http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200406030006). The Washington Post story in question was also criticized by their own ombudsman for being over the top and overstated after numerous complaints from readers.

Hume has also been critized for statements made on the March 28, 2004 edition Fox News Sunday. During the show, Chris Wallace and Hume were discussing critism of a joke made by President George W. Bush. The joke referred to the lack of weapons of mass destruction found after the invasion of Iraq:

<DL><DD><DL><DD><SMALL>Chris Wallace: "And one that got a big laugh in the room that day -- and I must say, I still think it's funny -- the day after, some Democrats and the families of some American soldiers in Iraq, some who died in Iraq, said they were offended by this kidding about the missing weapons of mass destruction. Brit?"</SMALL> <DD><SMALL>Brit Hume: "Well, we have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. <DD><SMALL>"And in America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.</SMALL> <DD><SMALL>"My own view of this is, the president's there poking fun at himself over what goes down, I think, as one of his failures. And I thought it was a good-natured performance, and it made him look good only in the sense that it showed he could poke fun at himself. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. <DD><SMALL>And you have to feel like saying to people, "'Just get over it.'"</SMALL> </DD></DL></DD></DL>.

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[CAPNCRUNCH]

Another example of the 'liberal' media- Brit Hume worked for ABC!:finger:

 

[919]

i can't see britney being very good at tennis...

 

[docmercer--banned]

Brit Hume .... ASSHOLE to the Max

 

[D2bets]

I can't believe John Gibson could keep his job after "they'd blow up Paris -- and who cares?" Holy crap.

 

[PatPatriot]

 

[bulldog77]

Hume is Joe Goebbels' 'ethics' without the talent.