Fox News...No Spin - Fair & Balanced??

[WillRiker]

OK, so before I tell you my little story let me just clarify 1 or 2 things up front.

First of all Jezza is alive and well and still being a teenager.

That will become clearer shortly.

Secondly, I watch Fox News on a semi-regular basis, but don't necessarily hold with their political viewpoint or leanings. I just like to watch various news channels to get various points of view.

As some of you may or may not know former Fox News anchor and Former White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow, died of cancer over the weekend.

Now again, I'm wasn't a huge fan of Tony Snow, neither did I dislike him, but having lost some family members to Cancer and knowing what a horrible, hateful and insidious disease it is I wanted to convey my condolences on his passing.

Armed with that knowledge here is the actual e-mail that I sent over the weekend, only my address has been removed.

Pay particular attention to my surname and how it's spelled.



OK, now having read that, word for word, here was what they aired on Monday Nights "O'Reilly Factor"....


Hosted On: Morty's Twisted World

Yes they basically killed Jeremy and got my name wrong into the bargain.

Now it's not as if I sent a huge long rambling e-mail that needed editing down, but they decided to shorten it anyway....incredibly incorrectly and get my name wrong.

Can you imagine if members of my family, (other than Kelly & Jeremy) had watched that???

It could quite literally have killed my Gran who is ill in hospital right now.

Needless to say I'm e-mailing them back about it, but I don't expect anything to come of it, I just had to share with the MTW'ers out there as I do all aspects of my life.

[The Chump]

I'm sorry to hear about Jezza. He seemed like a good kid, although I couldn't understand a word he said in the podcasts. My thoughts are with you and Purple Dragon during these hard times.

May Jezza rest in pieces on your mantle for many years to come. Perhaps cutting his hair might have helped fight the cancer? I guess its too late to know. Bummer dood.

[WillRiker]

Yes, it was quite amazing how he managed to keep his hair through it all.

Thanks for your kind thoughts at this time.

[Purple Dragon]

wow ..i'd have had a heart attack if i seen it ..what a mix up....

[Hayley]

No way! thats insane! They must have email readers that read quickly or something.

[mommysalomi]

I cannot watch the video it is just a red x

[Jezza]

MTW presents yet another YouTube - Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' video

[Morty]

That is just too fucking awesome. How cool is it that you happened to be watching TV at that moment to even catch that. Too cool!

[Hayley]

It just shows how the news twists quotes from celebs and make stuff up, this is a great example

[WillRiker]

Originally Posted by Morty

That is just too fucking awesome. How cool is it that you happened to be watching TV at that moment to even catch that. Too cool!

Well not totally cool as we have Sky + which is like Tivo and I was recording the show to the hard drive then all I did was transfer it to DVD, then rip it and upload...so still cool..just not as cool as it at first seemed.