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Tue Feb-05-08 03:06 PM
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Always remember that FAUX news argued and WON that they have the right to LIE to the public. n/t |
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:10 PM
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1. You are correct, oh great one ... |
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perhaps some info and a link would help: In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida. In 1997 the team began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The couple produced a four-part series revealing that there were many health risks related to BGH and that Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts. Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.(Project Censored #12 1997)
Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows. They further maintained that she deserved protection under Florida's whistle blower law. Akre was awarded a $425,000 settlement. Inexplicably, however, the court decided that Steve Wilson, her partner in the case, was ruled not wronged by the same actions taken by FOX.
FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation." In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased… It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She never had a legal claim.”http://www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2005/11.html
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:12 PM
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2. Oh and which great president did away with the fairness doctrine? |
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reagan, that act gave birth to the trash many call limbaugh and hannity today.
Two of the many things conservatives fear:
- swearing to tell the truth - the fairness doctrine
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:22 PM
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4. Yessir thats when things changed |
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that, to me, was the day the music stopped
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:25 PM
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5. Skeptical sumbitches like you and me |
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might think it was all part of a master plan.
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Freddie Stubbs
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:26 PM
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6. The fairness doctrine never applied to cable, only brodcast TV and radio |
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:30 PM
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7. Was Fox News an entity in the 90's? I don't recall |
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I've heard incorporating them (cable) into some similar future fairness doctrine entity. Probably the longest of long shots. Lying and distorting aint' what the founding fathers had in mind, since the "conservatives" love to bring up what the founding fathers intended.
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Tue Feb-05-08 04:50 PM
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8. Who would determine what broadcast material is a distortion? |
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The government? Someone appointed by this guy?
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Tue Feb-05-08 03:15 PM
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Tue Feb-05-08 04:53 PM
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9. republicon family propaganda values: amorality |
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Faux sux, and is a plague upon all that is good and decent in America.
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Tue Feb-05-08 04:54 PM
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10. Well now they have Karl Rove to lie for them |
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he was just added as a contributer. More of that Fair and Balanced act eh?
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