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Article: Boxing with Fox; Television news.(Regulating television news)(Fox News Network L.L.C.)(British Broadcasting Corp.)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2004
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Ofcom ticks off Fox News for a rant against the BBC
"NEXT time you hear the BBC bragging about how much superior the Brits are at delivering the news rather than Americans who wear flags in their lapels, remember, it was the Beeb caught lying." Thus John Gibson of Fox News, a news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch, celebrated on air in January when Lord Hutton's report slammed the BBC's sloppiness. But Mr Gibson went too far for Ofcom, Britain's media regulator. This week it censured the channel for failing to show "respect for the truth".
Mr Gibson had accused the BBC of "frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism" and said that it "felt entitled to lie and, ...