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Dang,the first amendment strikes again.We should just get rid of the constitution and cars and factories and power plants and coal and cattle and grocery stores and jobs and vaccines and hospitals and houses and air conditioning and soap and refrigeration.
Also we should start getting our news from hemp.....We should start the hemp news channel and Rachel Maddow can be the queen of Mexamericanada and Barak Obama can be her little prince.
Both Maddow and her MSNBC colleague, "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, engaged in their own brand of AstroTurf. They encouraged free health care clinics to be held in the states of six Democratic senators that are not in lockstep with the left-wing agenda on health care reform as a ploy to turn up the heat on those senators to support a so-called public health care option
I went to the trouble of finding the court's decision that ceaseSpin.org didn't provide for some reason so that we could all discuss the facts involved. The reason their was a court case to begin with is the couple wanted to air a story they couldn't back up with facts. They spent a lot of time and WTVT's money to put togther an irresponsible, unverifiable news piece that more professional reporters would have abandoned when it became clear the proof wasn't there to back up their claims. Instead of taking their lumps and likely a negative review, they lashed out at the station that was simply trying to report news in a responsible fashion. They were effectively canned when the station declined renewing their contracts. They sued the station because the station had a lot of money. The only thing that survived the fist court's decision was the FL whistle blower statute that was wrongly applied because no codified FCC "rule", that FL law required, existed. It was the appeals court that evaluated the law to see if a whistle blower statute applied. It didn't, so the original decision was reversed. How does that become Fox suing for the right to lie?
momonkey, that was not what happened. That may be what Faux is spinning but it is not anywhere near what happened.
In 1997, WTVT fired journalists Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson for "refusing to include knowingly false information in their report concerning the Monsanto Company's production of rBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce more milk than what is natural."[4] They sued Fox under Florida's whistleblower law. In August 18, 2000, the jury unanimously determined that Fox "'acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH.' In that decision, the jury also found that Jane's threat to blow the whistle on Fox's misconduct to the FCC was the sole reason for the termination.[5].
However, Fox appealed to an appellate court and won in 2004, after the court declared that the FCC policy against falsification that Fox violated was just a policy and not a "law, rule, or regulation", and so the whistle blower law did not apply. The Florida appellate court agreed with WTVT's (Fox) argument "that the FCC's policy against the intentional falsification of the news -- which the FCC has called its "news distortion policy" -- does not qualify as the required "law, rule, or regulation" under section 448.102.[...]Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a "law, rule, or regulation" under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower's statute."[6]
So they lie about their lying.... it's just science fiction.
The worst part is that Faux fans dont remember and dont want to remember and WILL NOT look up this stuff even though they have all the information right at their fingertips, and Faux knows that to be true and has been living off it all these years.
It would be funny if it werent so awful -- if it didnt have such horrible implications.momonkey, do you know what the real story was? Please look it up.
Dang,the first amendment strikes again.We should just get rid of the constitution and cars and factories and power plants and coal and cattle and grocery stores and jobs and vaccines and hospitals and houses and air conditioning and soap and refrigeration.
Also we should start getting our news from hemp.....We should start the hemp news channel and Rachel Maddow can be the queen of Mexamericanada and Barak Obama can be her little prince.
Nobody is stopping FOX news from existing. FOX news pro-actively decided to sponsor anti-government protests. They are still allowed to say whatever they want on TV but they are being treated like Sarah McClendon or Helen Thomas was by the GWB administration. Unlike FOX neither were ever at the helm of orchestrated money making protests against the GWB administration.
If moveon.org paid for a cable news channel should they be allowed press access to any event that they wanted? I would be against that as they actively organize against those who do not adhere to their agenda. FOX is becoming a conservative moveon.org. I don't blame them as it is an extremely profitable move. And when denied access because of their self-developed conflict of interest they will have even more to complain about on air thereby driving up the animosity they are artificially brewing and bringing them in even more money.
Explain to me why this is hypocritical. Are you arguing that FOX does not bring a conflict of interest concern upon itself by its own actions? Is this the precedent that we as a country want to set?
That's the appellants' statement! What do you think they're going to say?
"Their work on this story led to what could be characterized as an eight-month tug-of-war between the reporters and WTVT’s management and lawyers over the content of the story. 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." - appellants
"After a five-week trial and six hours of deliberation which ended August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH."[3]...three judges found in favour of Akre and Wilson on six separate occasions [Faux did not contest this in its successful appeal]..." - sourcewatch, jane akre
You want us to believe a lesbian with a liberal agenda? She can't even get her own gender figured out. She thinks she's a dude! LOL
Why are you gay-bashing?
There is no place in a mature discussion for your behavior.
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