28 January, 2009

"Should've Packed a Map"

I'll know the Apocalypse has arrived when Fox News actually reports a story accurately.

That time is not upon us (h/t):

Reacting to President Obama’s executive order to close down Guantanamo in the coming year, Pennsylvania Congressman Jack Murtha said that the Gitmo detainees could be relocated to prisons in his home state. To find out what residents of Murtha’s district think of this proposal, Fox News headed to Pennsylvania.

They should’ve packed a map.

Our reader alerts to the actual boundaries of Murtha’s district, which don’t include Mel’s Restaurant in Somerset Borough—which Fox said was in the “heart” of Murtha’s district and popular with “constituents”—the pub where the reporter conducted his interviews.

Oops.

When a news channel is this egregiously, consistently stupid, can they still be called "news"?

1 comment:

Cujo359 said...

When a news channel is this egregiously, consistently stupid, can they still be called "news"?

Apparently, there's no law against it.