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Cartoon of the Day - How Dumb Are FOX News Viewers
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John Manning
May 26, 2012, 12:52:23 PM5/26/12
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Have a look:
http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fbf1766/turbine/la-na-tt-karl-rove--20120524-001/600
REMINDER: Fox News Wins Lawsuit To Misinform Public – Seriously
"Fox lawyers argued it was
their first amendment right
to report false information."
Fox News Gets Okay to Misinform Public, Court Ruling
-- Here’s the rundown: On August 18, 2000, journalist
Jane Akre won $425,000 in a court ruling where she charged
she was pressured by Fox News management and lawyers to air
what she knew and documented to be false information.
The real information: she found out cows in Florida were
being injected with RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce
milk – and, according to FDA-redacted studies, unintentionally
designed to make human beings produce cancer.
Fox lawyers, under pressure by the Monsanto Corporation
(who produced RBGH), rewrote her report over 80 times to make
it compatible with the company’s requests.
She and her husband, journalist Steve Wilson, refused to air
the edited segment.
In February 2003, Fox appealed the decision and an appellate court
and had it overturned.
Fox lawyers argued it was their first amendment right to report
false information.
In a six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals decided
the FCC's position against news distortion is only a "policy,"
not a "law, rule, or regulation."
So, Fox and the other gladiatorical cable news channels
were given the okay to legally lie right around the time of
the Iraq War's birth – when media lies coincidentally hit a
peak in both frequency and severity...
Full article here:
http://www.philly2philly.com/politics_community/politics_community_articles/2009/6/29/4854/fox_news_wins_lawsuit_misinform_public
Jeffrey Needle
May 26, 2012, 2:58:15 PM5/26/12
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 13:52:23 -0300, John Manning wrote:
> Have a look:
> http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fbf1766/turbine/la-na-tt-karl-
rove--20120524-001/600
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This is hilarious! Thanks.
> Have a look:
> http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fbf1766/turbine/la-na-tt-karl-
rove--20120524-001/600
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This is hilarious! Thanks.
Mike Painter
May 27, 2012, 7:00:13 PM5/27/12
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away with it.
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