[kj] FOX "news" isn't news

[Concrete Cookie]

Exorcist, so how do you feel about being lied to by your "news"?

Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:25:55 -0400
From: killingjoke at theimmortalfool.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] FOX "news" isn't news



Yeap. They're about as iron-clad as your statement dear
Darren. Glad you've been persuaded.

It must've been just a bit stronger. I knew you'd come around to it
sooner or later. 


At 07:51 PM 10/23/2009, Brendan wrote:


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.

 


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

Sent: Saturday, 24 October 2009 10:31 AM

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



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
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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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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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