Ken,
Here's a link to the Google search I just did. I used the terms Kerry, metrosexual, Fox News
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=kerry+metrosexual+Fox+News&btnG=Google+Search
And here's the link to the Guardian, which inexplicably didn't show up in my last post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest
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-----Original Message-----
From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Don't trust News Sources!!
i have did google searches on carl cameron, carl
cameron the guardian, carl cameron florida, and went
to fox to search for article or apology. did not find
them. i'll wait for the links.
i'll go to yours and check it out, kat.
--- 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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