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REPORTERS TAKE FOX TV TO COURT For Trying To Force Them To Lie |
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by BarbaraHartwell
(No verified email address) |
05 Feb 2003
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GOV'T-CONTROLLED MEDIA LIARS: REPORTERS SUE FOX TV
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=28320 |
Barbara Hartwell
Legal Defense and Research Fund
PO Box 832
Woodstock NY 12498
Website: http://www.barbarahartwell.com
Note from Babs:
Thanks to Ed Schooling for passing along the link for this this story. It seems that rather than 'kill' the whole story about Monsanto, Fox TV decided to try to force reporters to lie and to sanitize and twist the facts. So the reporters sued their employer. Good for them !
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REPORTERS SUE FOX TV-INSIDE STORY
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Steve Wilson and Jane Akre
http://www.thepowerhour.com/editorials/reporters-sue-fox-tv.htm
The following story is just another example of BushCo infringing on free
speech rights. Folks, the media sold WeThePeople out. All we hear from the
media are lies and half-truths to the point that it's hard to discern what
is legitimate. Keep a fine tuned ear to the ground and hope like hell the
few honest media persons will come to realize that this isn't the America
we came to love and honor. Connect the dots. It all becomes crystal clear!
Excerpt:
"I used to think there was nothing worse than seeing a good story killed
because the special interest of a news organization (or one its friends or
advertisers) was more important than the public interest. I just found out
the hard way that I was wrong. There is something much, much worse -- and
it's something that should concern all of us because as corporate owners
control more and more newsrooms, it will happen again.
The investigative report produced by me and my reporting colleague Jane
Akre was not killed by Fox Television. Instead, as we explain in a lawsuit we
filed this past week, Fox managers and their lawyers ordered us to
distort, twist, and slant a story and threatened us with immediate dismissal if we
would not broadcast material we knew to be false and misleading."
GOV'T-CONTROLLED MEDIA LIARS: REPORTERS SUE FOX TV (views: 2151)
BarbaraHartwell -- Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 12:06 p.m.
THE CASE OF MONSANTO: CANCEROUS HORMONE IN UR Reporters Blow Whistle On News Station
FLORIDA MILK SUPPLY RIDDLED WITH
ARTIFICIAL HORMONE LINKED TO
CANCER; REPORTERS SAY THEY WERE
ORDERED TO LIE ABOUT IT ON FOX-TV
TAMPA—Two award-winning investigative reporters at the Fox-owned television station in Tampa are blowing the whistle on a story they say WTVT (Ch 13) and its corporate bosses preferred to coverup rather than broadcast honestly and accurately.
The story, documented in a lawsuit the reporters filed Thursday, reveals the widespread use of a controversial bovine growth hormone Florida dairymen have been secretly injecting into their cows.
The suit and information about use of the hormone in dairy cattle are presented in full detail at a special Internet web site. The site can be viewed at http://www.foxBGHsuit.com
Though legal since approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1993, the artificial hormone commonly known as BGH has been linked to cancer and is banned throughout Europe and unapproved in several other countries because of human health concerns.
The never-broadcast report also reveals how Florida supermarkets quietly reneged on promises not to sell milk from treated cows until the hormone gained widespread acceptance by consumers. All major supermarkets now admit BGH has found its way into virtually all the state’s milk supply.
The husband-and-wife investigative team joined with Florida’s top consumer groups—the Florida Public Interest Research Group and the Consumer Action Network—to reveal the BGH story at news conferences Thursday in Tallahassee and Tampa.........
http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
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Re: REPORTERS TAKE FOX TV TO COURT For Trying To Force Them To Lie |
by Media Skeptic
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06 Feb 2003
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This was an affiliate in Florida, not like THE FOX NETWORK or Fox News Channel, plus this is like 5 years old, so it's definately no smoking gun indicting the media in a conspiracy.
DIG dammit DIG!! |
