Journalists petition FCC to challenge Fox-13 license renewal

[gatorboy]

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/01/03/daily9.html?page=1

Two TV journalists have challenged the broadcast license renewal of WTVT Fox-13 asserting it deliberately broadcast false and distorted news reports.

Reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson filed the petition Monday against the Tampa station, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television conglomerate.

The 98-page petition to deny the station's pending license renewal presents the Federal Communications Commission with support for the claim that the licensee is not operating in the public interest and "lacks the good character to do so."

The challenge stems from what the reporters describe as a year-long experience working at the station where they resisted their managers who, they allege, repeatedly ordered them to distort a series of news reports about the secret use of an artificial hormone injected in dairy cattle throughout Florida and nationally.

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[complain jane]

1. Nice!

And Colin's son is head of the FCC, right? Hmm.

[whosinpower]

2. Wow

I was just surfing to find that lawsuit to post on a yahoo board after the CBS firings......just to put things into context...
if it misleading information is released on CBS - YOU FIRED.
If you refuse to report misleading information on FOX - YOU FIRED.


And nowhere, is there any standard of accountability that the truth must be upheld in news reporting - sadly that is the case.

[gatorboy]

3. Go here for a more in depth review of what's going on:

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Google the reporters names

and you'll get something like this:

CMW REPORT, Spring 2003 Title: “Court Ruled That Media Can Legally Lie”

Very interesting.