i'll look, but, the parody mentioned in the bloggers
site fits the quotes better than actual news.
--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> There's an archival link on the site that Kat
> mentioned, and here's a
> link to a report of the article on the Fox website
> from a newspaper in
> New Hampshire.
>
>
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=3D/20041003/NEWS/4100=
> 3
> 0362/1002/NEWS01
>
> The link may not work really well, since the link
> was split in my
> Outlook.
>
> The other references I found were from the Hindustan
> Times, which quoted
> The Guardian.
>
> Kendall Corbett
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Don't trust News Sources!!
>
> i thank you for the link and i'll check it out. but,
> i
> do hope to get a specific link to see both the
> guardians article and the fox site article although
> i
> am on the way to the fox site to do a search there
> having failed with google.
>
> not only do i not trust my news sources, i don't
> trust
> anyone's new sources without collaberation. print is
> cheap; on the internet and in the newspapers. and
> talk
> is cheap on the airwaves.
>
> --- Kat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > A good site that points out inaccuracies in media
> > reporting is:
> >
> > http://mediamatters.org/
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > On Monday 04 October 2004 07:04 pm, Deri James
> > wrote:
> > > Fox News apologises for Kerry fabrication
> > >
> > > Oliver Burkeman in New York
> > > Monday October 4, 2004
> > > The Guardian
> > >
> > > Fox News, the influential rightwing US
> television
> > network, said yesterday
> > > it had "reprimanded" its chief political
> > correspondent after its website
> > > carried fabricated quotes attributed to John
> > Kerry, in which he called
> > > himself a "metrosexual" who enjoys getting
> > manicures.
> > >
> > > The network, owned by Rupert Murdoch, apologised
> > for the article in which
> > > the Democratic challenger was quoted telling a
> > rally in Florida: "Didn't my
> > > nails and cuticles look great? What a good
> > debate!" Comparing himself to
> > > the president, Mr Kerry was supposed to have
> said:
> > "I'm metrosexual - he's
> > > a cowboy." Women voters, he purportedly added,
> > "should like me! I do
> > > manicures."
> > >
> > > The article appeared under the byline of Carl
> > Cameron, who has been
> > > following Mr Kerry on the campaign trail. It had
> > been posted on the site,
> > > the network said in a statement, because of
> > "fatigue and bad judgment,
> > > rather than malice."
> > >
> > > "Carl Cameron made a stupid mistake and he has
> > been reprimanded for his
> > > lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at
> humour
> > and he regrets it," a
> > > Fox spokesman, Paul Schur, told the Los Angeles
> > Times, though he would not
> > > give details of what action would be taken
> against
> > Mr Cameron.
> > >
> > > The "metrosexual" story taps into a persistent
> > theme underlying the
> > > election race, in which the Republican party and
> > its supporters in the
> > > media have sought to make a campaign issue of
> the
> > candidates' perceived
> > > masculinity.
> > >
> > > At the party's convention in New York last
> month,
> > California governor
> > > Arnold Schwarzenegger called Mr Kerry's advisers
> > "economic girlie-men".
> > >
> > > A metrosexual, the fake Fox article helpfully
> > concluded, "is defined as an
> > > urbane male with a strong aesthetic sense who
> > spends a great deal of time
> > > and money on his appearance and lifestyle".
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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