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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/w...es-unwilling-star-of-french-tv-show.html?_r=0
It seems as if France listened to what the right wing American media said about their cities and they vehemently disagree. It's interesting how a lie can backfire so badly for a news agency. FOX News repeated a total lie so much that even the country that was attacked looked at them and said "What the **** are you talking about?!" - I think what FOX News should do is spend 4-5 days debunking their own lie and taking their "experts" to task for their wrongful assertions.
Mockery is a national weapon inFrance, so when an American cable news channel raised false alarms about rampant lawlessness in some Paris neighborhoods —proclaiming them “no-go zones” for non-Muslims, avoided even by the police — a popular French television show rebutted the claims the way it best knew how: with satire, spoofs and a campaign of exaggeration and sarcasm.
The show, “Le Petit Journal,” is a French version of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” — irreverent and reliant on mock correspondents who showcase the foibles of the high and mighty.
Usually “Le Petit Journal” reserves its venom for French politicians and the local news media. But in the days after the terrorist attacks
in Paris that left 17 dead, including 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, it set its sights on a trans-Atlantic target, America’s Fox News, after the channel claimed that swaths of England and France were ruled according to Shariah.
It seems as if France listened to what the right wing American media said about their cities and they vehemently disagree. It's interesting how a lie can backfire so badly for a news agency. FOX News repeated a total lie so much that even the country that was attacked looked at them and said "What the **** are you talking about?!" - I think what FOX News should do is spend 4-5 days debunking their own lie and taking their "experts" to task for their wrongful assertions.