On Tuesday, Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends” aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article.
The background: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a prankwhen their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.
The actual story was then spoofed by a parody sitecalled Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan.’”
On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident.
Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”
Friday, April 27, 2007
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I don't have cable at home, Pumpernickel, so I find myself addicted to Fox News when I'm travelling in the US. I find it hard to look away. It is a compulsion. I crave it sometimes.
I rubberneck at highway accidents too, in case you were wondering.
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