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FOX News pays odd homage to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time photo

Well, you don't see that every day. FOX News obviously has an N64 player among its ranks, and while it wouldn't surprise me that the dinosaurs at FOX have only just discovered Nintendo's 64-bit system, what does surprise me is the fact that they snuck some music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into one of their stories.

Hit the jump and check out the video. Brings back memories and really makes me want to track down an old N64 and play the game again. Nice to see that not everybody at FOX is a clueless f*ckstick, right?

 


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Intruder's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:06
Intruder
Haha, that's awesome!
VashTS's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:07
VashTS
Pritty sneaky!!!
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:07
Magnalon
VERY WEIRD. It sounds just like the songs they play during those "inquisitive" parts of stories, though!

Related to the stories: ah, scam companies. I remember being rused into an interview for one once. Never again. As soon as the interviewer said "we selected ONLY your resume out of hundreds of candidates!" I felt a chill.
lwelyk's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:09
lwelyk
Wow I thought my local news stations were bad, but that guy sounded like an annoying commentator for a funniest home videos thing.
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:10
TheCleaningGuy
For the first 58 seconds, I was like "what?"
Then I heard it. :)
Zeta Crossfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:11
Zeta Crossfire
wait could they of meant the people AND the music was a shame? i mean they ARE fox news btw so ya....
JtheYellow's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:12
JtheYellow
Worth pointing out that this is a local affiliate and a regional news team doing a "gotcha" story about their area, it's not FOX or FOX News per se.
Phoenix Gamma's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:12
Phoenix Gamma
Buaha, that was pretty funny. I love that stupid little jingle.
Guncannon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:13
Guncannon
Cockrell: 6XXL.

The innuendo stands for itself.

Also, good effort by the news team, except: why didn't you call the cops for the employment agency and assault by the landlord?
Nitex's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:19
Nitex
That was pretty odd, yet funny.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:24
Monodi
Uh. Seriously?
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:25
wanderingpixel
I refuse to watch Fox News. However, that is awesome.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:26
Sentry
At first I was going to comment that the song near the end is from "The Last Guy" but decided to do a little bit of research before sticking my foot in my mouth. Turns out the song I'm familiar with in that game is actually a variation on an oft-covered song called "Popcorn", originally recorded by Gershon Kingsley in 1969.

/uninteresting history lesson

Thank you crappy news station, for inspiring me to learn something new.
D Sane's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:45
D Sane
That is totally weird, but the mood of the music is totally fitting for what they were going for.
TriggerRedd's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:46
TriggerRedd
Fox News sued for illegal use of copyrighted property! Princess of Hyrule seen topless at local beach!? And, find out how Lon Lon Milk can KILL YOU! Story at 11!
Brlito's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:50
Brlito
This seems like too high-budget to be a shitty little local news station, this Hall of Shame thing seems like it's nationwide.

I don't think that ONE city (or local area) could have so many criminals.
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:51
Dexter345
Hee hee.
yuetheguardian's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:56
yuetheguardian
this was on my local fox station and I heard it live.
lastSKYsamurai's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2009 23:57
lastSKYsamurai
So, do FOX have to get Nintendo's permission to use the song? How does it work?
Corak's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 00:01
Corak
For some reason the music seemed to fit well given the context.
feighnt's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 00:24
feighnt
good for the folks who were getting scammed that they did that video, but, man, that reporter was *terribly* obnoxious. he could sell junk in an infomercial!
cranes88's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 00:25
cranes88
Ha. Fox News is much more knowledgeable than everyone on the internet and the other news stations give it. Don't be a slave to the liberal media.
Johnnyreb2565's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 00:26
Johnnyreb2565
Nice, Jim what a sublime way to show that a Fox affiliate is trying to do good and expose scams. If it takes game music to get it on the site so be it.

BTW, Fox is the Devil cause it is the only TV network that is not part of the of the Obama State Run Media. Keep up the good work.?!
ThunderHeartXI's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 00:27
ThunderHeartXI
Chances are some 20 something video editing intern stuck it in after putting on his nostalgia goggles. I doubt that the people who actually write for or talk on the show had anything to do with that music.
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 01:13
Artemus
Ha ha!
That is awesome!
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 01:21
vexed alex
This making the front page kinda' makes gamers look desperate.

Hey, Top Gear used a song from Halo once. News?
Adam's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 01:30
Adam
I guess they really wanted to use a song that would say to the viewer at home: "Hey, listen!"
Diverse's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 01:34
Diverse
Wow, it's really freaky to hear that on national television for some reason. I feel like I'm in a bizarro world.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 01:53
Chronic Logic
Time to search the intertubes and find all television shows that uses music from video games.
Nogarda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 02:36
Nogarda
It didnt fit much. But that was the biggest obvious scam I've ever seen. People must be seriously desperate for a job to get shafted like that.
Midgetsnowman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 02:52
Midgetsnowman
@Cranes88: Its not their reporting thats the problem, is that their shows are just as neoconservatively biased (cuz they sure as hell aint conservative) as other news stations are liberal biased.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 03:07
Magnalon
@The Fox Debaters
Jim reports on a random 10 second sound bite and it turns into a possible 50 comment FOX news fest - JOURNALISM!
MellowBunny's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 04:02
MellowBunny
See Fox News would get more viewers if they played music from more video games.
timepants's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 04:50
timepants
@Brlito
"I don't think that ONE city (or local area) could have so many criminals."

It's Detroit. Believe it.
Hopeless Savage's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 06:42
Hopeless Savage
This isn't the Fox News Channel, it's for a local station in Detroit. It's owned and operated by the Fox Television Network, which, outside of business terms, amounts to a very loose affiliation.

Not much room for climbing up on a soapbox about the shortcomings of whichever cable news network caught your particular ire, but hey, pay no mind to me, I'm only right.
Tyrotoxismist's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 06:50
Tyrotoxismist
Umm... Is this what news is like in the USA, or is it just Fox?

This wasn't reporting, it was just... well... almost commentary. It's the kind of thing you'd find on a not-particularly-serious show here in the UK, like Rogue Traders or something, not the news.

x.x
Gilgi's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 07:06
Gilgi
God i love Detroit, so much action..
Touya's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 07:08
Touya
He used it because the guy looks like the Lon Lon Ranch farmer :D
ouched's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 07:21
ouched
Hopeless Savage is dead on. This isn't the nationally syndicated cable network, its their Detroit affiliate that they don't control the daily operations of.

The cable network does enough to earn the ire of gamers that one doesn't need to grasp at straws.

@ Tyrotoxismist
How is a local news organization alerting citizens of a scam just commentary? So I take it a local news paper posting a story about a restaurant in it's locality with numerous recent health code violations is just commentary as well?
Galenmereth's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 07:39
Galenmereth
What the fuck? One minute in and no Zelda; please give me back my wasted minute now. One minute is one minute of attention more than I'm willing to give to any FOX broadcast, ever.
3uho's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 07:52
3uho
LOL this kakariko village looks wicked !
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 08:05
kwaselow
Jim, local news from a fox affiliate is NOT fox news. I'm from Metro Detroit, and I know that these guys are solid.
funran's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 08:19
funran
Kwaselow,

Fox news and it's affiliates are still fox news, as it's on the, you know, fox channel...
HiddenAHB's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 09:52
HiddenAHB
It must be a mistake.
We're talking abou FOX afterall.
fozzyozzy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 12:23
fozzyozzy
So we get Zelda music and a middle-eastern man yelling obscenities at cameramen? How is that not the perfect story?
Arch649's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:32
Arch649
I smell a lawsuit brewing.
Saborlas's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/24/2009 18:20
Saborlas
I suppose that's the proper timeframe. Fox News, out of fear of being seen as progressive, will not use any technology until it's been a dozen years since it was released. So the guy who put the music in is playing OoT for the FIRST TIME.

Fortunately, by the time they discover Halo 2, most of us will have moved on. I just KNOW it'll trigger another wave of slinging homophobic slurs at people with superior skillz.
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