Nitpicking a TV segment
At about 12:30 p.m. Eastern today, Fox News Channel ran a segment called "Asylum rule change sparks border rush." I can't find the corresponding story online at the moment. I'm critiquing this segment not to add to bolster the near-fact that Fox is a right-wing jingo network, but to point out a big hole in the story.
FNC anchor Bob Sellers introduced the segment on today's mutual tightening of U.S. and Canadian asylum rules by saying the change had provoked a "rush" to the Canadian border (maybe he said "mad rush"; I'm not quite sure). Reporter Jeff Goldblatt then detailed the change and what different groups and people had to say about it.
Numbers about how many people were heading to the border? Footage of mobs of people flocking there? Heavy traffic at the border? Didn't see any of it. Nothing to qualify this report of the ocurrence of a "border rush." Are we supposed to take this border rush for granted?
FNC anchor Bob Sellers introduced the segment on today's mutual tightening of U.S. and Canadian asylum rules by saying the change had provoked a "rush" to the Canadian border (maybe he said "mad rush"; I'm not quite sure). Reporter Jeff Goldblatt then detailed the change and what different groups and people had to say about it.
Numbers about how many people were heading to the border? Footage of mobs of people flocking there? Heavy traffic at the border? Didn't see any of it. Nothing to qualify this report of the ocurrence of a "border rush." Are we supposed to take this border rush for granted?
posted by Scott at 1:00 PM
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