{"id":3579,"date":"2015-01-12T19:26:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2015-01-12T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:42:50","slug":"catastrophic-sense-of-humour-failure-at-fox-news-regarding-foxnewsfacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic Sense of Humour Failure at Fox News Regarding #foxnewsfacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are not aware, Fox News is a cartoonish &#8220;news&#8221; channel best regarded as a comedy channel. Today they managed to make themselves ridiculous when a so-called &#8220;expert&#8221; claimed that there are hundreds of &#8220;no go&#8221; zones across Europe including the\u00a0<em>whole<\/em> of Birmingham, and that London had gangs of religious police roaming around beating up anyone without appropriate attire.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_zF7nbEvwY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In response, there have been thousands of tweets published to a twitter hash tag (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoxNewsFacts?src=hash\">#foxnewsfacts<\/a>) mocking Fox News for this mistake. To be precise they have been posting ridiculously over the top &#8220;facts&#8221; in the style of Fox News\u00a0<em>without<\/em> claiming that they were really statements made by Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;expert&#8221; has apologised, although after calling Birmingham &#8220;beautiful&#8221; you do have to wonder about how much research went into his apology. Birmingham is a great city that can be described in many ways, but beautiful isn&#8217;t the most obvious adjective to use.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News on the other hand seem to have lost the plot (if they ever had one to begin with), and have been issuing legal threats in response to some of the tweets :-<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B7JYr4aCAAE6oIN.jpg?resize=599%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Epic Idiocy!<\/p>\n<p>Just for the benefit of the idiots at Fox, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Country\">Black Country<\/a> is a long-used phrase used for the region to the north and west of Birmingham. As could be found out with a few clicks of the mouse. And &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B7Jwt9RCMAE8mqm.png?resize=600%2C611&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nobody is claiming the ridiculous statements tweeted were made by Fox News; they are merely taking the piss. And by making pointless legal threats, they are prolonging the ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>Or was it all a fake? Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are not aware, Fox News is a cartoonish &#8220;news&#8221; channel best regarded as a comedy channel. Today they managed to make themselves ridiculous when a so-called &#8220;expert&#8221; claimed that there are hundreds of &#8220;no go&#8221; zones across Europe including the\u00a0whole of Birmingham, and that London had gangs of religious police roaming around <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3579' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[1283,1282,197,571],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-birmingham","tag-fox-news","tag-islam","tag-london","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-VJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}