by Lewis Shaw
Reports of a South Korean ferry sinking last month shocked people around the globe, as almost 300 people - many of which were young students - lost their lives.
But where many saw tragedy, the famed Fox News saw an opportunity for a marvelous gaffe - inferring that all Asians look the same.
Upon reporting the incident, Fox used footage of mourners at a Mount Everest climbing disaster at which 16 people died - instead of going to Korea and filming the people who were actually mourning the disaster, like every other news network.
Upon reporting the incident, Fox used footage of mourners at a Mount Everest climbing disaster at which 16 people died - instead of going to Korea and filming the people who were actually mourning the disaster, like every other news network.
People who have met an Asian person before were quick to criticise. Hundreds wrote complaints - a Mr. Rick Phillips of the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles wrote: "The commonality of the remarks and complaints we have heard and read is the denial that the people in the video are not Koreans and the country in which they are in is not Korea."
He added that he believed they had simply used "footage of random sad Asians instead of going to Korea."
The incident was one in a long line of eyebrow-raising actions by the network, such as claiming that Dr. Seuss was a left-wing propagandist, or that wearing a hooded jacket is in some way fatal.
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