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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