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In reply to the discussion: Breaking : Drug Dealers Admit Berkeley PD Have Asked Them To Assault Cop-watchers [View all]DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
(408 posts)8. I tend to trust the local blogs, colleges, forums more than the big corporate guys who've been
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 FCCs 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 Companys production of RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce more milk. They successfully sued under Floridas 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 WTVTs (Fox) argument that the FCCs 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 FCCs news distortion policy is not a law, rule, or regulation under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blowers statute.[1]
In 2001, Jane Akre and her husband won the Goldman Environmental Prize as a recognition for their report
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 FCCs 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 Companys production of RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce more milk. They successfully sued under Floridas 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 WTVTs (Fox) argument that the FCCs 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 FCCs news distortion policy is not a law, rule, or regulation under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blowers 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/
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Breaking : Drug Dealers Admit Berkeley PD Have Asked Them To Assault Cop-watchers [View all]
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
OP
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
By the way, I have done cop watch and been arrested for doing so on trumped up shit
Nika
Feb 2013
#10
There is a decades long org call Cop Watch in the East Bay. They film cops
Luminous Animal
Feb 2013
#7
In other words, this will never be noticed by the average American. n/t
Flying Squirrel
Feb 2013
#18