[kj] FOX "news" isn't news

Concrete Cookie concrete_cookie at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 23 23:09:43 EDT 2009



I'll check it out!




From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:06:29 +1100
Subject: Re: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news








No but I've seen that documentary, tell me what's wrong with
it.

I couldn't really find anything to complain about in John
Pilger's works either.



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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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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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