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8. I tend to trust the local blogs, colleges, forums more than the big corporate guys who've been
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 12:37 AM
Feb 2013

caught lying and covering for each other for years. What ever you do never deviate from your socially approved corporate media, that it just so happens the courts ruled are legally able to omit the facts and lie to us. I'll take my chances in the real world. Feel me?

Fox-Can-Lie Lawsuit
People frequently refer to a court case that Fox won, which essentially gives the media the right to lie. This came from an appellate court decision that states that the FCC’s news distortion policy does not qualify as a rule, law, or regulation.
From Wikipedia:
Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson are former employees of Fox owned-and-operated station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. In 1997, they were fired from the station after refusing to knowingly include false information in their report concerning the Monsanto Company’s production of RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce more milk. They successfully sued under Florida’s whistle blower law and were awarded a US $425,000 settlement by jury decision. However, Fox appealed to an appellate court and won, after the court declared that the FCC policy against falsification that Fox violated was just a policy and not a “law, rule, or regulation”, and so the whistle blower law did not apply.
The court agreed with WTVT’s (Fox) argument “that the FCC’s policy against the intentional falsification of the news — which the FCC has called its “news distortion policy” — does not qualify as the required “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102.[...] Because the FCC’s news distortion policy is not a “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower’s statute.”[1]
In 2001, Jane Akre and her husband won the Goldman Environmental Prize as a recognition for their report


http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/
Ho GREAT. Clearly Occupy is more dangerous than the drug dealers... annabanana Feb 2013 #1
Serious level of corruption there. freshwest Feb 2013 #2
Outragious, but not hard to believe. Nika Feb 2013 #3
really? cops are giving dealers a free pass because occupy people are much more dangerous. right pasto76 Feb 2013 #4
I tend to trust the local blogs, colleges, forums more than the big corporate guys who've been DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Feb 2013 #8
I have been activist a long time and have experienced bad things Nika Feb 2013 #9
By the way, I have done cop watch and been arrested for doing so on trumped up shit Nika Feb 2013 #10
There's a new book out called "Subversives", by Seth Rosenfeld. Fuddnik Feb 2013 #12
Corrupt cops??? Shocked I say! n-t Logical Feb 2013 #5
Beyond corruption. Bonobo Feb 2013 #17
What is a "cop watcher"? Why the park? (nt) reACTIONary Feb 2013 #6
There is a decades long org call Cop Watch in the East Bay. They film cops Luminous Animal Feb 2013 #7
I believe it. n/t defacto7 Feb 2013 #11
The only people more dishonest than the mob are the cops. GETPLANING Feb 2013 #13
You can no longer tell the good guys from the bad guys. lpbk2713 Feb 2013 #14
This will turn into a huge scandal UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2013 #15
In other words, this will never be noticed by the average American. n/t Flying Squirrel Feb 2013 #18
I know the word is verboten, but isn't that at least a little 'fascistic'? nt Bonobo Feb 2013 #16
Verboten my ass. Flying Squirrel Feb 2013 #19
Verboten is German for forbidden. Fascist is the closest word. Festivito Feb 2013 #21
C'mon, just some isolated bad apples. Nothing to see here. RedCappedBandit Feb 2013 #20
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