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".