[kj] FOX "news" isn't news

[The Exorcist]

Will it be a pinstripe suit?

At 08:00 PM 10/23/2009, Karen Weil wrote:

>Have fun Brendan; and please send us a postcard. And if it's Rush, 

>it must be "2112."

>

>

>Cheers,

>

>k.w.

>USA

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>From: <mailto:bq at soundgardener.co.nz>Brendan

>To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>'A list about all things Killing 

>Joke (the band!)'

>Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:51 PM

>Subject: Re: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news

>

>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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>[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of The Exorcist

>Sent: Saturday, 24 October 2009 10:31 AM

>To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

>Subject: Re: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news

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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

>>Subject: Re: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news

>>

>>*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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>>>mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Concrete Cookie

>>>Sent: Friday, 23 October 2009 9:02 AM

>>>To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the

>>>Subject: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news

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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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