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Fox News Bites Onion: "We Are Not Making This Up!"

UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
edited April 2007 in Strut Central
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show ???Fox & Friends??? aired at least eight segments on a purported ???news??? story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when 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.This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called 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!???http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody/

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  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    What's really sad, error or no error, is that the jist
    of their message seems to be that it is perfectly ok and,
    in their eyes, "funny" for a kid to taunt someone of the
    muslim faith with pork - - at the very beginning he's like
    "a middle school kid, making a joke, just being funny" - so
    I'm curious at what point did making fun of people's religon
    and beliefs become acceptable behavior, especially children
    mocking other students just because they are a different religon?
    That's funny?
  • ZEN2ZEN2 1,540 Posts
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