What goes around, comes around...

[mrph]

Remember the Fox News opinion piece that attacked Gilligan and the BBC, pretty much implying that the BBC had been pro-Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq? (It was available as video online, and got linked from several LJs).

Well, OFCOM has just finished investigating and has found Fox to be in breach of British broadcasting rules - in particular, the "respect for truth" and "opinions expressed must not rest upon false evidence" sections of the code.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1239094,00.html

Comments

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is, given that Fox were in breach of guidelines, what are the reparations?

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'd wondered about that bit...

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

It seems to happen so often that someone is found to have broken the rules, but then nothing is done to either punish them nor prevent it from happening again. No wonder people have no feckin' respect any more. Fox should be fined heavily and put on probation under penalty of having their UK broadcasting licence revoked.