Fox Affiliate Correct To Fire Irresponsible Journalists. (legal, accuse, state)

[momonkey]

I personally despise any and all front groups because they so effectively deceive the simple and lazy. Unfortunately America lacks neither the simple nor the lazy. The worst front groups are alleged watch dog organizations that are funded by industry or billionaires who seek to discredit their political opponents. To me it is another level of deceit all together. Such is the case of ceaseSPIN.org that bills itself as an objective politically neutral news media watch dog organization. But this organization is far more deceitful than the news media it claims to oversee (Fox News).

The journalists in the video who were terminated by a Fox News affiliate in Tampa, FL are husband and wife. They wrote a story that claimed bovine growth hormones were transmitted to humans through milk and caused cancer in humans. Since the claim opened the Fox News affiliate up to all sorts of litigation, the legal department insisted that these claims be supported with objective proof. The court records reveal the couple simply didn't do their homework and the Fox News legal team wisely prevented an irresponsible news story from going forward. The couple retaliated against their employer by alleging they were coerced to lie. This claim and all others were dismissed by a jury that only upheld a wrongful termination suit based on whistle blower laws that actually did not apply. That decision was reversed on appeal. None of this prevented ceaseSPIN.org from completely fabricating an anti-Fox News story that has no basis in fact what so ever.


Fox News gets okay to misinform public, court ruling | Media Reform | CeaseSPIN.org


New World Communications of Tampa, Inc., d/b/a WTVT-TV, a subsidiary of Fox Television, challenges a judgment entered against it for violating Florida's private sector whistle-blower's statute, section 448.102, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1998). We reverse.

Each time the station asked Wilson and Akre to provide supporting documentation for statements in the story or to make changes in the content of the story, the reporters accused the station of attempting to distort the story to favor the manufacturer of BGH.


After a four-week trial, a jury found against Wilson on all of his claims. The trial court directed a verdict against Akre on her breach of contract claim, Akre abandoned her claim for declaratory relief, and the trial court let her whistle-blower claims go to the jury. The jury rejected all of Akre’s claims except her claim that WTVT retaliated against her in response to her threat to disclose the alleged news distortion to the FCC.


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