straight answer about Bovine somatotropin.
Looks like they�re know as much now as they did back
in 1996
http://www.ifst.org/hottop8b.htm
Anyone else have info? Is the milk safe to drink?
--- Sandy Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forwarded:
>
>
>
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/11.html
> or http://snurl.com/8wep
>
> Summary: Fox News instructed a couple of their
> reporters to lie in a
> story about health risks from Bovine Growth Hormone.
> The reporters
> refused, and Fox News fired them. The reporters
> attempted to sue as
> whistleblowers.
>
> Fox's defense is that they have a First Amendment
> right to lie, and
> so weren't doing anything wrong that would let the
> reporters qualify
> as whistleblowers.
>
> It raises more than one interesting issue. First,
> and most
> superficially, is Fox's tacit admission to a policy
> of distorting
> the news. That such a policy exists isn't news to
> IPers, but the
> public admission is interesting.
>
> Secondly, there are the rather more complex merits
> of the wrongful
> dismissal case. Is lying part of a reporter's job?
> Apparently it
> is at Fox News. I'd be interested to see these
> reporters' official
> job descriptions. Are reporters joining Fox News
> told that they'll
> be expected to lie?
>
>
>
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