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Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

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The two worked at WTVT, a Fox television station in Tampa, Florida, and were described as a “television dream team.” Akre was a former CNN anchorwoman and reporter, Wilson a three-time Emmy Award winner whom Penthouse described as “one of the most famous and feared journalists in America.” Their four-part news series on rbGH was scheduled to begin on February 24, 1997. It was going to expose Monsanto’s lies to the world, and show how the milk from treated cows was dangerously linked to cancer.
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42 comments // Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

  • JanforGore
  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  

    • iloveravi writes,

      "Are there people here who are ACTUALLY surprised that FOX would protect the interests of a huge corporation over the Public's? Really? Come on, you are not that stupid....are you?"

      Shameless optimist!

      How can you not be aware that 21% of Americans still admit to being active GOPers? Granted that makes the GOP a third party, after Independents...

      But does anyone not understand that most if not all of the nation's most seriously disturbed individuals either ardently watch (or work for) POX News?

      To claim that GOPers 'just can't be that stupid' misses the larger issue. Adult competence in thought at the synaptic level.

      Face it, nothing so traumatizes GOPer fanatics than a carefully reasoned and well-documented argument. And the reason?

      A cranial predisposition to reduce reality to a binary low-bandwidth paradigm. Zero-sum, Right\Wrong, Either\Or, Dissent is Treason, and anyone who disagrees is a Thrall Of The Anti-Christ.

      That's not just lack of Intelligence, or being stupid, but lack of the sense of proportion which highlight the "beginnings" of a growing intelligence moving past the age of two with all its tantrums.

      Ask any mother, GOPers and two-year-olds abreact in the very same ways.

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  

    • I'm a little confused. Are there people here who are ACTUALLY surprised that FOX would protect the interests of a huge corporation over the Public's?

      Really?

      Come on, you are not that stupid....are you?

    • 3 years ago
  • Mikeysfake1
  • Kepano
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      Kepano  

    • Great Story Fucking Outrageous, that's why sicknesses and diseases are spreading because Money talks in this sick world. Fuck the people Big Business continue to flourish while they rid the weaknesses from basic human genes.

    • 4 years ago
  • Johnll
  • Johnll
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      Johnll  

    • Thank god I at an age where I can no longer drink a lot of milk. And the part on the media in my thoughts is that American news is always censored and this goes also for the current president they don't really want the public to know what's going on behind closed doors and ABC- T.V. news is notorious for this especially Charles Gibson .....

    • 4 years ago
  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  
    • Johnll:

      Fifty years ago we used to laugh at Pravda, Tass, Izvestia and the People's Daily News. Why?

      Because foreigners and correspondents who wrote about the Communist press described little more than one extra layer of supine party bureaucracy.

      Those who escaped from Russian and China made it plain that their press was a laughingstock at home. It wasn't news they offered but only what the politburo wanted the population to think was going on while the population was being fleeced. If the truth in fact did appear it was more likely an accident than not.

      We prefer to think of such things as having political peculiarities - Left or Right. But why should they? Wherever there is corruption the press is manipulated, controlled and carefully filtered of information vital to an informed population.

      Here it's just cheesier. Our media is pumped full of plastic, botox and toothy celebrities with nothing to say and very carefully vetted scripts to read it from.

      It took us a long time to catch up to the corruption of far older nations. But once that happened we've made precisely the same stupid gambles and followed the same stupid let's-lie-to-everyone policies that those who preceded us to ruin followed.

      I think the people who say that history repeats itself are right but need to add one particular. The reason the same follies are repeated is simple. The same compulsions and idiocy will always drive simpleton leaders to think -- "Well that's not going to happen to me!"

    • 3 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Never doubt that evil exists and that it never sleeps . Constant vigilance is needed . Good investigative reporting is vital . Great post .

    • 4 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • kennymotown
  • patriotaxe
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      patriotaxe  
    • kennymotown:

      Agreed, kennymotown. But that's going to take serious action, revolutionary action, to eliminate the outright lies provided by propaganda machines such as FOX. They're like a cancer spreading across the freedom of our nation.

    • 4 years ago
  • patriotaxe
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      patriotaxe  

    • Journalism is NOT dead. These incredible reporters have proved that. Fox News, however, is not journalism. It's propaganda, it's misinformation, it's innuendo, it's political pornography, it's mostly lies, it's entertainment, it's where "hatriots" turn for their "news." But it's not journalism.

    • 4 years ago
  • sickinjersey
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      sickinjersey  

    • When ever i drink milk it is organic also. But this whole fox thing is crazy. those people are really in there own little world.You can also check out
      freepress.org

    • 4 years ago
  • AaliasChrisCarter
  • Elligirl
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      Elligirl  

    • There is absolutely no separation between business and government when there really should be. When CEOs of corporations can get similar posts at regulatory organizations, then the system is broken.

      Sad that the journalists were repressed on the Monsanto story. They should have passed their info on to make sure the story couldn't die, I think. But then, it's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes, too.

    • 4 years ago
  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  
    • Elligirl:

      Elligirl,

      Remember FM? Remember when FM was commercial-free radio? And then? It wasn't.

      Remember when you picked up a signal with a TV antenna? Or when Sesame Street was brought to you by letters of the alphabet? When public TV didn't run constant fund-raising drives?

      No? That's age for you. Being born before TV became a must have sign of status, I do.

      The press before our day was exceptional. It had men and women who were more than a notch above others, in tenacity, and courage. Now? It is an absurd farce.

      This is a golden age for bean-counters and efficiency experts. "Those who can't" become advisers to those who can.

      In due course everything imaginable can be and will be turned into a profit potential. The way things are going one day it will be air.

      It's as though Henry Ford's assembly line became a malignant spirit, a fetish, or contagious compulsion to micromanage every instant of every working day - except at the Top, where the decisions are made..

      There, it is still prep school, a land of entitlements, and it's always someone else down the pay grade who pays the bills for blunders and carelessness..

      What is amazing is not that Monsanto did its utmost to suppress a damaging story - that's the system - normal corporate self-interest. What is amazing was not POX NEWS killed the story because Monsanto would scream at them, but that the journalists trusted that the story could appear anywhere on the MSM.

      That's how far our standards have dropped. To see it clearly you need longevity. You need to recall when it was not remotely this bad before. And for most younger people that recollection is impossible because most of their lives it was always dismal.

    • 3 years ago
  • ClipsFC
  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  
    • ClipsFC:

      Anybody remember the movie "The Insider"?

      Remember the term "tortious interference" used as a threat to kill an expose of Big Tobacco?

      If they can't bribe, they sue you to death.

      That's what's wrong with lending power to mega-monopolies. Fifty years ago our laws were smarter than this.

      Monsanto has the money, will, and clout to shut down their opposition.

      Curiously though, there's a Canola farmer up north, Percy Schmeiser, who lost every court battle all the way up to Canada's Supreme.
      Court.

      At which point guess who caved?

      http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm

    • 4 years ago
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • NeverNude
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      NeverNude  

    • I had heard once from my biology teacher that pasteurized milk is actually very unhealthy for people to drink, and that the dairy industry, having been established for so long, has been keeping that from becoming widely known. He made a very convincing argument, though I can't remember the specifics of why he said its unhealthy, something about how the milk from any species is meant specifically for that species which has evolved to digest it, I dont know. They do have lobbyists and a whole lot of money invested in advertisment.

    • 4 years ago
  • idealist
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      idealist  

    • im gonna go give my mom a big hug for makeing me allways eat organic things. especialy milk and eggs.
      cus it turns out monsanto wants us all dead!

    • 4 years ago
  • AveryMoore
  • regjoeschmo
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      regjoeschmo  

    • Dont stop drinking milk altogether, organic milks do not have this chemical in them.

      Some non-organic milks do not have this in them either, but it was found to be discriminatory for companies to label their milk to say it did not have these chemicals (another successful lobby from monsanto), so organic is the only safe bet.

    • 4 years ago
  • ras_menelik
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • There however has been progress regarding getting rid of RBGH. Many dairies in New England no longer use it, and there are other states such as Kansas, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. where consumer backlash has caused it to not be used as well.

      Also, there has been progress regarding labeling of RBGH in dairy products. If you like milk and still wish to drink it, Tuscan milk is one brand that does not have RBGH in it. You can look at the label and it will read there are no artificial hormones in the milk. Ben and Jerry's ice cream doesn't have it either, and if you go to http://www.responsibletechnology.org, you will be able to find out more information on RBGH and the fight in states to keep it out of dairy products and to have labels stating it is not in the dairy product.

      Monsanto was also feeling the heat from the consumer backlash so much that last year it sold POSILAC to Eli Lilly. So, have hope. People are fighting back and we are winning, though we have a bit farther to go. They might be able to shut up a tv station, but they can't shut us all up.

    • 4 years ago
  • treasureac
  • Herbal_Minded
  • NeverNude
  • crazy_french
  • sickinjersey
  • AndreaKnoll
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      AndreaKnoll  

    • Yeah, not as deadly, but I worked at a Murdoch publication in the late '80s / early '90s. Our investigators found out about Evian's problem with sulfates. We had to bury the story since they were one of our biggest advertisers!

    • 4 years ago
  • sickinjersey
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      sickinjersey  

    • And you've heard of Agent Orange, 2-4-5-T, the defoliant used in Vietnam? Monsanto convinced the government it, too, was safe. It was later proven to be extremely harmful to humans…and a government investigator found what she said was "a clear pattern of fraudulent content in Monsanto’s research" which led to approval.

      Source BGH BULLETIN

    • 4 years ago
  • Johnll
  • JanforGore
  • vistapoint
  • sickinjersey
  • myDeuxCents
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      myDeuxCents  
    • vistapoint:

      The way I learned about it is from watching an award winning documentary made in Canada called "The Corporation". It is a real eye opener and can teach you a bunch of other things you may not know. I first watched it by checking it out of my local library, but one should try to promote these wonderful producers and buy it from their site www.thecorporation.com. It's been shown numerous times on freespeech tv on Dish Network.

    • 3 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
  • pjacobs51
  • sickinjersey
    • 0
      sickinjersey  

    • "Do the media elite directly censor the news?" Phillips asks. "Without being privy to insider conversations, it is difficult to prove direct censorship by management of particular stories in the news. But an organizational tendency is to comply with the general corporate culture, and career-minded journalists and editors sharing this common corporate culture will create what direct censorship cannot: a general compliance with the attitudes, wishes, and expectations of the media elite and, in turn, corporate America."
      Source:
      Project Censored [ www.projectcensored.org, ]

    • 4 years ago
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