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You have to read what Fox News had to say about the London bombings…
0 Comments Published by grey July 9th, 2005 in postsfrom Guardian Unlimited:
Fox News slammed over ‘callous’ line
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The GuardianRupert 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.”
Another Fox News host, John Gibson, said before the blasts that the International Olympic Committee “missed a golden opportunity” by not awarding the 2012 games to France. “If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?” He added: “This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics - let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.”
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from Guardian Unlimited:
Canada approves gay marriage
Associated Press
Wednesday June 29, 2005Canada last night became the third country in the world to approve gay marriages when MPs passed a historic bill granting same-sex couples equal rights to those in traditional marriages.
The bill was passed by the Canadian House of Commons despite strong opposition from religious leaders and conservative MPs.
Gay marriage is already legal in seven provinces in Canada, but the new legislation grants same-sex couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples nationwide. The Netherlands and Belgium are the only other countries to allow gay marriages.
Read this article from MSNBC.com:
Calif. judge strikes down gay marriage ban
Ruling says there is ‘no rational purpose’ for limiting unions
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET March 14, 2005SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Monday that California can no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman, a legal milestone that if upheld on appeal would pave the way for the nation’s most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
I have a few movie trailers for you: Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator is an early favorite for this year’s Xmas movie. The Hunting of the President definitely looks like an interesting documentary that I’m gonna want to see once I get into Bill Clinton’s My Life (which hits stores next Tuesday). And there’s a new trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s The Polar Express which definitely has an interesting look to it. I’m a big fan of the Chris van Allsburg, I just hope the animation doesn’t turn out to be crappy and distracting. Oh, and another candidate for the Xmas movie would seem to be Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland, depending on when it reaches wide release (it’s slated for a limited release on 10/22/2004).