{"id":3532,"date":"2006-06-29T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3532"},"modified":"2006-06-29T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:48:24","slug":"fox_news_apolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/fox_news_apolog\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News apologizes for Toronto terror error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t you expect this post to start: &#8220;Man hit by flying pig&#8221; ? <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/wink.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0>]<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0001424\/2005\/02\/01.html\"><img class=picture height=150 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/fair%20and%20balanced_new.jpg\" width=150 align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>Earlier this month, Fox News reported on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003445.html\">Toronto terrorism arrests<\/a> with a story shot in front of the Ontario Khalsa Darbar, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Khalsa_Darbar\">the largest and busiest Sikh gurdwara in Canada<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The broadcast story showed the front of the Ontario Khalsa Darbar &#8211; a Sikh Gurdwara &#8230; as the house of worship the terrorists frequented and also showed members of the local Sikh congregation. [<a href=\"http:\/\/saldef.org\/content.aspx?&#038;a=1478&#038;z=1&#038;title=SALDEF%20Addresses%20Inappropriate%20Association%20of%20Sikh%20Community%20and%20Terrorists%20with%20FOX%20NEWS\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0001424\/2005\/02\/01.html\"><\/a>That&#8217;s right &#8211; a story about suspects from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003445.html\">Somali, Pakistani, Indian, Egyptian, and West Indian backgrounds<\/a>&#8221; and what do they do? They choose to shoot using a Gurdwara and Sikhs as a backdrop, misidentifying them in the process. They all look same, massah, here, use the generic other! <\/p>\n\n<p>To be absolutely clear, I am not saying &#8220;beat them up, not us!&#8221; I find that kind of talk completely abhorrent. If I was producing the segment, I would have used one of the targets as a backdrop rather than a mosque, precisely because of the fear of hate crimes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/06\/04\/mosque-vandalized.html?ref=rss\">vandalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>To their credit, <font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">Fox News responded and apologized<\/font> when contacted by <a href=\"http:\/\/saldef.org\/content.aspx?&#038;a=1478&#038;z=1&#038;title=SALDEF%20Addresses%20Inappropriate%20Association%20of%20Sikh%20Community%20and%20Terrorists%20with%20FOX%20NEWS\">SALDEF<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>In an email to SALDEF, the Fox News Correspondent noted, &#8220;<font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">I did pull our entire crew into the satellite truck and explained to them the difference between a Gurdwara and a mosque. I can assure you they realized the gravity of this situation. I&#8217;m very, very sorry<\/font>. &#8220;<br \/><br \/>Additionally&#8230; John Stack, a FOX NEWS Vice President, &#8230; expressed similar regret in the mistake and vowed to make a personal inquiry into the matter to assure that it would not happen again. [<a href=\"http:\/\/saldef.org\/content.aspx?&#038;a=1478&#038;z=1&#038;title=SALDEF%20Addresses%20Inappropriate%20Association%20of%20Sikh%20Community%20and%20Terrorists%20with%20FOX%20NEWS\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>By the way, if you need further evidence as to why <font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">&#8220;beat them up, not us&#8221; is not just morally bankrupt but also tactically ineffective as a response to hate crimes, it turns out that even in multicultural Canada, bigots are ignorant<\/font>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Hindu temples, including those where Guyanese worship, were attacked in Toronto last week. The temples were apparently mistaken for mosques and the Hindu worshippers as Muslims. [<a href=\"http:\/\/korematsu.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/toronto-hindu-temples-vandalized.html\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>All hate crimes are bad, people, all of them (And that includes terrorism). Don&#8217;t make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came...\">Pastor Niem\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6ller<\/a> return from the dead to kick your kundi.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t you expect this post to start: &#8220;Man hit by flying pig&#8221; ? ] Earlier this month, Fox News reported on the Toronto terrorism arrests with a story shot in front of the Ontario Khalsa Darbar, &#8220;the largest and busiest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/fox_news_apolog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}