This has once again come up on this forum…but there’s a reason you can’t find that ‘claim’ on any legit website.
In the lawsuit: Akre did an investigative report for local Fox affiliate on a particular company’s use of Growth Hormone in their cows and accusations it led to human health issues.
When the report was done, the cow company asked Fox to do a review of the piece to check it for bias prior to running it…Fox ultimately did not run the story on their station.
Akre claimed not running the piece constituted lying, by “hiding” the story.
That is all. The Fox affiliate defended their right to run or not run stories. They won.
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Do Liberals Actually Still Believe Fox Sued For The “right To Lie”?
Posted on May 3, 2012.
Yes, they have spun a version of their folklore which has become “their truth”.
libs don’t really have anything reasonable on their side, just emotion and hatred.
fact is, a fox affiliate isn’t “fox news” which, again, libs don’t understand.
also, any private company can do as they see fit and when they have hundreds of stories to choose from, deciding which ones make it and which ones don’t is an every day event. libs just see lies because this is what they do most/best.
See, they still don’t believe
1. It was NOT Fox news
it was fox entertainment channel local affiliate
IE: american idol channel
thats a completely different corporation than fox news corp
2. And the Fox entertainment corp, had NOTHING to do with the law suit
It was not even a fox program, it was a local stations news
They were fired for refusing to report lies and it was upheld in court, read about it here (http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stori… or watch the corporation on youtube to see their video testimony and further evidence.
Liberals believe what they’re told to believe. They don’t have the mental capacity to do otherwise.
Yes. They did. They fired a correspondent for refusing to make false claims. Your right wing propaganda doesn’t change that! The fact that you can’t separate reality from fiction doesn’t change that!
You have it backwards. Fox was sued for the right to lie.
see thats a fact….most biased people do not need facts
Most liberals still think that. So much for free thinkers huh?
Well, you got it wrong. They didnt sue. They were sued by Akre, and lost, but won on appeal when Fox’s Lawyers argued successfully that it was their first amendment right to misinform the public. This is a matter of public record.
Here’s the rundown: On August 18, 2000, journalist Jane Akre won $425,000 in a court ruling where she charged she was pressured by Fox News management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information.
The real information: she found out cows in Florida were being injected with RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce milk – and, according to FDA-redacted studies, unintentionally designed to make human beings produce cancer.
Fox lawyers, under pressure by the Monsanto Corporation (who produced RBGH), rewrote her report over 80 times to make it compatible with the company’s requests. She and her husband, journalist Steve Wilson, refused to air the edited segment.
In February 2003, Fox appealed the decision and an appellate court and had it overturned. Fox lawyers argued it was their first amendment right to report false information. In a six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals decided the FCC’s position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a “law, rule, or regulation.”
I linked to one of Many web sites that reported on this.
Still it’s funny that it was FOX News, and not some other station.
I wouldn’t expect better from an Australian / Saudi “news” network.