FOX SPORTS ACKNOWLEDGES RACIST PARODY

The Fox Sports division of Fox News was forced to apologize for a racist parody where the reporter asks Asian students to welcome Colorado and Utah into the PAC-12 division. He then mocked their accents. Fox took the video down and apologized to the USC University president and the entire USC community. They promised to take steps to ensure something like that will never happen again.

If I can get the video, I’ll post it for you. Maybe Fox will realize that their approach to inflammatory “news-tainment” (my word for the combination of weak news with the effort to entertain news audiences) created the environment where someone creating content for them thought that behavior was appropriate.

… just something I was thinking about …