Fox News slammed over 'callous' line

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1524856,00.html

Fox News slammed over 'callous' line

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Guardian

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for
comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the
London bombs.

Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the
channel's Washington managing editor, said: "Just on a personal basis
... I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I
thought 'hmm, time to buy'."

The host of a Fox News programme, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks
had the effect of putting terrorism back on the top of the G8's
agenda, in place of global warming and African aid. "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."

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Media Matters for America, a watchdog and frequent critic of Fox,
criticised the comments on its website. "I think it's absolutely
sickening three Fox anchors had such callous reactions to the
bombings that took dozens of lives," said the Jamison Foser, of
the group.

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