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BBC Head Calls FOX News ‘Beneath Contempt’

HeadlineJul 15, 2005

The Head of BBC TV News Roger Mosey is striking back at the FOX News Network after so-called terrorism expert Steve Emerson said on the O’Reilly Factor after the London bombings that “the BBC almost operates as a foreign registered agent of Hezbollah and some of the other jihadist groups”. Mosey points out that on the Fox website, there was an opinion piece called “How Jane Fonda and the BBC put you in danger”. In his statement, the BBC’s Mosey writes “I am writing this in a building which was bombed by Irish terrorists. My colleagues and I are living in a city recovering from the wounds inflicted last week. If I may leave our customary impartiality aside for a moment, the comments made on Fox News are beneath contempt.” Again, those the words of the head of BBC TV News Roger Mosey.

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