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Monday 11 July 2005

Filed under: — Charles @ 2:20 pm

Words fail me. And them, apparently.

Ed Bott runs a great blog (of which I’m apparently one of just 13 people who read it using NetNewsWire). And here is his tale of how he began watching the BBC TV coverage of July 7th, switched over to CNN, and pretty rapidly switched back.

What’s jaw-dropping though is the comments apparently made by some of the anchors for the other news channels, such as Fox’s John Gibson saying

This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics (search) — let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.

Gibson apparently reckons that

It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn’t have had to worry about terrorism.

First, the French think they are so good at dealing with the Arab world that they would have gone out and paid every terrorist off. And things would have been calm.

Or another way to look at it is the French are already up to their eyeballs in terrorists. The French hide them in miserable slums, out of sight of the rich people in Paris.

So it would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already.

It would have been a delight to have Parisians worried about security instead of New Yorkers. It would have been exquisite to watch.

I really don’t think he should visit London any time soon, at least not if his photograph is circulated. Somewhere, a village is really missing its idiot.

Read the lot. Bott has closed comments, but I hope this trackback reaches him…

3 Responses to “Words fail me. And them, apparently.”

  1. Will Says:
    July 11th, 2005 at 3:19 pm

    I saw this quote from Fox ‘newsman’ Brian Kilmeade on friday

    “Brian Kilmeade, outspoken conservative and host of Fox & Friends, started the cacophony of egregiousness by belaboring the top-level ranking of global warming and African aid on the G8 agenda. The London attacks were “the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1,” Kilmeade suggested. “But it’s important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.””

    http://counterbias.com/339.html

    Oh and the same post notes that the Fox anchor Brit Hume’s response to the bombing was ‘Hmmm, time to buy’[ie stock]

    Will

    ps have you read Al Franken’s book ‘Lying Liars…’?

  2. Ed Bott Says:
    July 11th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

    Yep, the trackback arrived! Thanks, Charles.

  3. Crawford Says:
    July 12th, 2005 at 2:34 pm

    From The Gruniads coverage of the issues surrounding the BBC coverage of the bombing:

    “Although a spokesman said the word “terrorist” was not banned from the BBC, its language guidelines state that “careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgements” should be avoided and that “the word ‘terrorist’ itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding” and should be “avoided”.”

    I think it is safe to say no such evaluation of the intracacies of language exist on some of the US networks…

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