bruce, Bull-fucking-shit. Did it say the suit was brought by the DOJ? Apparantly it was not a criminal suit but a civil suit filed by Ms. Akre that was broght to a Florida Appeals Court after Fox lost in a lower court. Oh really? Lie WHILE UNDER OATH in a state or Federal Court and seem how fast you are charged with perjury. Don't give up the day job lad, you'd starve as a lawyer.
On Jun 26, 8:32 pm, bruce majors <[email protected]> wrote: > Studio doesn't even realize that what the court said is that the government > does not get to say what is true and false. If it did then all news would > be censored because you could only report government approved truth. > > Are there any intelligent liberals someone can import into this group. > Because the three or so we have are weak sisters > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:24 PM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > That would make Fox almost as bad a MSNBC and CNN then as well as CBS > > and NBC and ABC. After all CNN admitted that for the entire decade of > > the 1980's and most of the 1990's they lied about the reports they made > > from Iraq. Then you have the NYT which has refused to admit for almost > > 80 years that the reporter who got the Pulitzer for his reporting about > > the Kulaks in the Ukraine was totally bogus. Nothing new with this at > > all. CBS has been charged with reporting lies on 60 Minutes several > > times. That does not even include the lying of Cronkite during the VN > > war or Dan Rather and his crew. Keith Olbermann has lied about Sarah > > Palin multiple times as well as many of the other reports he made. ABC > > still does not admit that the questions they asked Palin were faked. > > And all of them have lied about Obama over the years. The difference is > > that Fox will do something to fix it. None of the others would, even > > when they were proven to be lies. > > > studio wrote: > > > Fox News gets okay to misinform public, court ruling > > > 05/14/09 11:48 Filed in: Media Reform > > > > Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie. > > > By Mike Gaddy. Published Feb. 28, 2003 > > > > On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is > > > absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting > > > information by a major press organization. > > > The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of > > > journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by > > > Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she > > > knew and documented to be false information. > > > The ruling basically declares it is technically not against > > > any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort > > > the news on a television broadcast. > > > > The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert > > > Murdock, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters > > > the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the > > > public airwaves. > > >http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_n...- > >Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
