Fox apology for Birmingham 'Muslim-only city' claim

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

18 January 2015 Last updated at 11:06 GMT

Fox apology for Birmingham 'Muslim-only city' claim

US Broadcaster Fox News has issued an on-air apology for televising a claim that Birmingham is a "Muslim-only city" where non-Muslims "don't go".

Steven Emerson, an American terrorism commentator, made the claims as he spoke to the channel about the terror attacks in France last week.

Mr Emerson retracted his claims after being contacted by media outlets.

On Saturday Fox said it "deeply regrets" the errors and apologised to the people of Birmingham.

Issuing the apology presenter Jeanine Pirro, who was interviewing Mr Emerson when he made the claims, said a guest had made "a series of factual errors that we wrongly let stand unchallenged and uncorrected."

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-30870062

[shenmue]

1. That's one apology down

Another billion to go, for all the other dumb things they have said.