[kj] FOX "news" isn't news

[Karen Weil]

Have fun Brendan; and please send us a postcard. And if it's Rush, it must be "2112."  


Cheers,

k.w.
USA 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brendan 
  To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' 
  Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:51 PM
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  Your iron-clad arguments and relentless barrage of indisputable facts have brought me around 180 degrees, I'm throwing out my isolation tank and bong and going to get a suit fitted. And some Rush albums.


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  From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of The Exorcist
  Sent: Saturday, 24 October 2009 10:31 AM
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  Not bad as much as sad.

  At 06:41 PM 10/23/2009, sade1 wrote:

    > *Groan* You read her as well?!
     
    You say that like it's a bad thing.

     
    ... ... ... ... ... ... 

    [looking at the current state of things..]
     
    'Save me...
      save me from Tomorrow..
        I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'   
     



    From: The Exorcist <killingjoke at theimmortalfool.com>
    To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
    Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 12:20:22 AM
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    *Groan* You read her as well?!

    At 06:14 PM 10/22/2009, Brendan wrote:

      They both appear in Naomi Klein's 'The Corporation' - a must see doco.
       

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      From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [ mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Concrete Cookie
      Sent: Friday, 23 October 2009 9:02 AM
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      Subject: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news

      Just in case anyone was still under the assumption that FOX (or any news station in this country, considering the story below...) had any journalistic credibility.

      Today I read about a very interesting case of 2 fox journalists Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, reporting about rBGH used in milk even though the advertising on the milk said there was no bovine growth hormone.  Monsanto was very unhappy about the story coming out and Fox basically fired the journalists.

      Wilson and Akre sued and won the suit in front of a jury, regardless FOX still reported on the news that they had won.

      Fox later took the case to federal court where they convinced the judges that FCC rules about grievous harm to the public done by LYING ON THE NEWS are only SUGGESTIONS and not enforceable law.  Judges agreed, hence setting the precedent that lying is not really enforceable.

      Of course, trying saying F*($ on television and saying that it's just a silly FCC rule that no one can enforce... lol

      Without changing the laws all we have is propaganda.

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