Fox 'guilt' over patriotic reporting

July 13, 2004 8:09 AM

David Rhodes, director of newsgathering at Fox:

We were widely laughed at for our colour coded security threat warnings and everyone remembers the videos of people going down to Wal-Mart and buying their plastic flags. All media in the US share a certain amount of guilt for taking these images and passing them on.

The Guardian continues:

While he refused to discuss the station's policy on Israel or its flag-waving patriotism and support for the war in Iraq, he said the station was merely reflecting sentiment in the US when it introduced its daily "security alert" graphics in 2001.

Fox 'guilt' over patriotic reporting (07.13.2004)

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