Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/fox_news_beatles_manchester_gaffe/
Fox News outs Beatles as 'Manchester's favorite mopheads'
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Posted in Bootnotes, 16th November 2010 13:36 GMT
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FoxNews.com has got its knickers in a twist about the birthplace of some pop band called the Beatles.
As illustrated below, the US news outfit is quite certain in a news article curiously carrying a Wall Street Journal byline that the Fab Four are from Manchester and not Liverpool [1].
Beatlemania Madchester [2]
The mistake will have readers of a certain age rolling their eyes, not least Fox's owner, New Zealand-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch. ®