Fox News Study: Costs of Inaction Against Iraq Add Up
Isn't this the same Faux news that won the right to legally lie? So who paid for this study?
Fl Appellate Court Rules
Media Can Legally Lie
By Mike Gaddy
SierraTimes.com
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On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information. The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.
On August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion that Akre was indeed fired for threatening to report the station's pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was "a false, distorted, or slanted" story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy cows. The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers.
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Faux - the best news money can buy
And I nearly forgot Murdoch's attempts to sell the Iraqi "war" as better than a "tax cut".
"500,000 Iraqi casualties for the tax cut." Who can say that better than Faux news? |
