{"id":723,"date":"2004-06-14T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T11:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/06\/ofcom_raps_fox\/"},"modified":"2004-06-14T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T11:25:33","slug":"ofcom_raps_fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/ofcom_raps_fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom Raps Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/blugg.com\/stuff\/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm\">somewhat hyperbolic, and ever-so-slightly misleading Fox News opinion piece by John Gibson<\/a>?<br \/>\nWell because Fox News is broadcast via Sky, they get to fall under Ofcom, who have today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/bulletins\/prog_cb\/pcb_11\/upheld_cases?a=87101\">upheld a number of complaints<\/a> made about it. This in itself probably doesn&#8217;t mean a great deal. However. repeat offences could result in sanctions being taken by Ofcom including financial ones, under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/codes_guidelines\/broadcasting\/tv\/programmes\/programme_code\/?a=87101\">Programme Code<\/a>. I believe that as a last resort, they can actually pull a channel off air, in the UK at least.<br \/>\nThe most ridiculous part of the Fox News response is that if you type &#8220;BBC Anti-American&#8221; into Google you get 47,200 hits. Ofcom responded that this is hardly sufficient evidence to back up such a statement, and in any case, doesn&#8217;t make any editorial judgement about how those words are used. Needless to say, I could quite easily set up 47,000 web pages myself containing those words. And, oh, a search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=anti-american+%22fox+news%22\">&#8216;anti-american &#8220;fox news&#8221;&#8216;<\/a> on Google returns 29,300 hits.<br \/>\n(Incidentally the other complaint upheld against the ITV drama <i>Wire in the Blood<\/i> is slightly disturbing. We have a 9pm watershed, yet you can&#8217;t simply start stronger programming straight away at 9pm. I don&#8217;t really understand this rational. Surely if a line is to be drawn, then that&#8217;s it, and stronger programming can then be shown &#8211; particularly if a warning is made).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that somewhat hyperbolic, and ever-so-slightly misleading Fox News opinion piece by John Gibson? Well because Fox News is broadcast via Sky, they get to fall under Ofcom, who have today upheld a number of complaints made about it. This in itself probably doesn&#8217;t mean a great deal. However. repeat offences could result in sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}