Did Fox News's Shepard Smith just mistranslate "Gambatte kudaasai"?

Yesterday evening (Friday, March 18, 2011) Shepard Smith translated "Gambatte kudasai" as "Be strong". Now to my anime, computer Japanese lessons, and small Japanese to English language dictionary addled brain, "Gambatte kudasai" should be translated "Do your best, please", a small but significant difference. So, did Shepard Smith get it wrrrong?

Retargeting?

ALright, so I was all gung-ho about finding writings that shallowly attack Fox News and calling them out on it, but Glenn Beck said some things recently that I feel like addressing.

Glenn Beck makes a big deal out of "The Story of Stuff", and then proceeds to speak sympatheticly about "stuff". This link has comments that echo my concerns: http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/01/26/glenns-state-of-the-individual/

Just a little while ago, Glenn just double coumted the cost of inflation in the price of a shirt that was already out of myrice range.

also Glenn doesn't appear to relize that most people aren't salaried workers.

So Glenn Beck shows a tree ring crosssection, looks at the rings and concludes that shorter distances between rings means that the tree is going through tough times. However, another explanation is that as the tree gets older, the more area in a ring has to be traversed.

View Glenn Beck's segment at
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tvshow/2011/01/what-do-the-tree-rings-mean/

The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions (VIDEO) - Huffington Post pt2

The second story at The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions says that in March, Fox News's Martha MacCallum presented a clip of Vice President Joe Biden as coming from an interview that weekend when in fact the clip came from a 2008 campaign event at which Biden was quoting Sen. John McCain.

They also have a clip on another page of that site that backs them up. It is a bit odd that the second clip comes from Fox News as well.

They are correct in saying that, however that alone is a small portion of the clips Fox News used to demonstrate their point which in turn is a small opening segment to a much longer discussion.

On the second page,it was stated:

"Fox cut away from Biden awfully quick, and for good reason: the audience was about to unleash a torrent of boos."

However, it seems that it is more likely that they cut away quickly because they cut away quickly from all of the clips. The article goes on to say that:

"Fox News would have made their point just fine if they hadn't included the misleading part of this clip."

That would make it more likely that it was a mistake.

Audiences were mislead to believe that the clip upheld the assertion made. There is a big difference between that and misleading the audience into believing a false assertion.

But lets look at the other clips:

American workers are sound. We have a good capital stock.

There does seem to be some sign of stability in January and February better than if that were not the case.

These two statements don't seem to be overwhemingly positive about the state of the economy.

The core strength of the economy is middle-class workers.

This does not appear to be saying anything about how strong the economy is, just where that strength is to be found.

Remember that all this is just being used as an illustration for the sole purpose of introducing a discussion.

most egregious? Really?

The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions (VIDEO) - Huffington Post pt1

The first story at The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions says that a 15 year-old boy was above the age of consent.

What we need to know:

What state did this happen in? Neither the Huffington Post nor the Fox story referred to tells.

Page listing age of consent for states and countries.

According to this Wikipedia entry on Kevin Jennings, he taught in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Referring back to the page listing age of consent for states and countries both states have an age of consent of 16. So what's going on here?

The First Post

This blog is to be about statements made that are against Fox News and analyzing them. However, Glenn Beck, who I generally like to watch, just went on the air (4-5-2010) and talked around the concept of net neutrality. I say talked around because he doesn't seem to understand what net neutrality really is. His argument appears to me to boil down to some people who hold bad beliefs are for it, so it must be bad. He also doesn't seem to realize that net neutrality is the status quo.

Glenn Beck also did not provide a link to comments concerning him at the FCC. Here it is: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/fulltext/search?site=ECFS&filter=0&client=ECFS_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&num=100&q=neutrality+glenn+beck

Somehow, I don't think a FCC request for comments is the proper place to rail against Glenn Beck though.

And now for a relevant anti-Fox link:
Glenn Beck (still) doesn't understand net neutrality. Not even close.