Fox Called Out

Absolutely correct, this isn't about balancing a budget, this is about dismantling the New Deal one component at a time. Under Bush they took a run at Social Security and failed, now it's the unions... and the unions are the only thing the working class has to counter the kind of money and power that corporate America has..if they break the unions then the Democratic party loses the leverage of one of the key members of it's base...the Republicans know this and are working feverishly to bring it about...I'm telling you this, if they succeed wages will go down faster than a rock falling through the air and benefits? What benefits, that will be nothing more than a word in the dictionary. This is a classic example of David vs. Goliath Lets pray that once again David triumphs. If not, if you are a member of the working class your future is going to be grim.

I wonder if truckstops being owned by big oil has anything to do with it? Here is your chance to do something about faux. When your there having your meal, everytime they (faux) says something that you know to be false, LOL and shake your head in disapproval. If you can wake just one of those assholes... you've done well.

Republican's may be dumb, but what does that make us?
They've managed to outsmart and out-maneuver us at every turn.
They're running the show.
We couldn't even win when we had control of Congress and the Presidency.
I say, if they're dumb, we've proved ourselves dumber.

KEEP PLAYIN' THAT FIDDLE, NERO!

what a pant load!

Politifact.com is one of the most biased supposed 'fact checkers' there is.
Try Media Matters or some other sites that feel 'facts' must also be the truth.

Whine, mozart. You and your corporatist brood are about to be bent over like a Republican in a men's room. Might as well take a wide stance now.

Very cool. Thanks

Bravo Bravo great post!

LOL rofl lmao thank you you made my day :)

They don't care.

It's actually sad people are finally catching on. They've been lying for years.
Fox News should change their name to Fox Propaganda.

Pheena people are finally waking up because the hurt has reached them and now they are willing to say FOX and their masters lie but they did not know this from the get go? This is what happens when folks don't pay attention and listen to the message being given to them knowing darn well there is a lack of truth and don't even have the drive to find out for themselves! So FOX lying is a given, but folks accepting the lies as fact and then finding out the hard way they have been duped by their own lack of knowledge or drive to find the truth is tough on them. Maybe more hurting and unfortunately of innocents might just be the wake up call we have been hoping for them to get.

Yes I know, that's why I said what I did. Honestly, some people are just naive and can't fathom the news telling lies, because it wouldn't be called news and wouldn't be allowed 20 years ago. It's actually sad that Fox News takes advantage of those people. People are anger and hurt they turn on the "news" and they see Glen Beck or whatever protesting things like it's life or death and are forced to listen because they don't know any better.

Glen Beck should honestly get a Oscar or ride in a paddy wagon for his antics. I honestly can't tell if he's crazy or just a really good actor for ratings.

see post below on Jane.......

Nice post, I would like to respond to something you said though. he said "I don't understand how our judicial system of constitutional kings has gotten so low and has become a puppet for corporations."

that's simple, corruption money, always remember, we live in a plutocracy not a democracy, so plutocracy is to corruption what Sarah Palen is to ignorance-inseparable.

Remember, remember the 5th of November...

ty for reading it

Nancy,

You need to verify your facts. Akre was not fired. But more importantly the FOX argument on appeal was not what you state. It was that Akre did not state a case under the whistle blower law which requires proof that she complained about a "law regulation or rule" that fox violated. It was held that an fcc rule against falsification (the basis of her whistle blowing) of news was not a "law rule or regulation" within the meaning of the law.

The appeal had nothing to do with anyone, especially the court, sanctioning lying in news stories.

You are stirring up stuff with half truths just like FOX does.

Akre and Wilson presented their report to their bosses at WTVT, a news station owned by the Fox network. Although the details were well-documented, Monsanto, the maker of rBGH, pressured WTVT not to run the story. The station bosses, in turn, ordered Akre and Wilson to falsify details of the story. Akre and Wilson re-wrote the story 70 times, but never to the satisfaction of the network. They were locked out of their offices, denied access to crucial bits of information, and finally fired. The story ran in many independent journalism outlets, including The Texas Observer and the publication of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), and Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly.

broadcaster incurred defending itself in a landmark whistleblower case the reporters filed in 1998. The journalists estimate FOX spent than a million dollars on its defense.

The ruling assessing the fees came on the heels of a ruling overturned a August 2000 jury verdict and $425,000 award to FOX investigative reporter Jane Akre. Although jurors concluded she was pressured by FOX lawyers and managers to broadcast what the jury agreed was "a false, distorted or slanted story" and was fired for threatening to blow the whistle, the jury decision was reversed on a legal technicality when a higher court agreed with FOX that it is technically not against any law, rule or regulation

In setting the jury verdict aside, the appeals court ruled that in order to be protected by Florida’s Whistleblower Act, the alleged misconduct must violate a written law. The court said the FCC’s prohibition against news distortion is merely a policy.

Fox lawyers had made the same argument on at least six occasions when it was rejected each time by three different judges in the trial court proceedings.

"First, the jury’s decision is overturned on a technicality and a very narrow reading of the Whistleblower protection law, then the court sets the stage for FOX to destroy us financially," Wilson said. "This is cannot be consistent with the intent of state lawmakers who wrote a Whistleblower law to encourage and protect people who have the courage against all odds to stand up and call attention to wrongdoing."

"Nothing in the decision that reversed the verdict at trial absolved FOX of what the jury found to be misconduct in pressuring a reporter to go on the air with a false story just to protect it’s advertisers," said Akre. "They may call it vindication but overturning a jury’s decision on a technicality that it’s not illegal to lie on the public airwaves is not vindication in the mind of any honest and ethical journalist.

"The truth is Rupert Murdoch and the big-money Washington law firm [Williams & Connelly] that represented FOX here have forced us to make another difficult decision about appealing these decision that set a dangerous precedent in two important areas," Akre continued.

I always laugh when people who lose on appeal cry that it was a technicality. Of course it is a technicality, that is what law is. I lost a whistleblower case in Florida on the same grounds. It is the most common defense.

The final analysis is that she lost the case.Why does the reason matter?

BTW, she was not fired. Her contract was not renewed. Another technicality, I suppose.

They were locked out of their offices, denied access to crucial bits of information, and finally fired..or contract not renewed (same thing as fired )

just reporting like Fox news half truths or so you say........or Semitics

I misread my initial source, their contract was terminated. My bad. When it comes to the facts of a case that has made it to an appeals court, I prefer to get my facts there. Here is a link to the opinion in that case explaining the basis for reversing the jury verdict.

http://www.2dca.org/opinions/Opinion_Pages/Opinion_Page_2003/February/February%2...

This basis for reversal is a perfect example of the mule deer hypothetical.

A law was passed that made it illegal to kill a mule deer. A hunter was hunting and killed a red deer.He was tried and the jury found him guilty. He appealed. The appeals court reversed and said he broke no law. He did not kill a mule deer he killed a red deer. So, jury, although you did not like what he did, he did not break any law and should not have been tried.

Akre accused the station of firing her for blowing the whistle because the station violated the FCC rule against false reporting. The Florida whistle blower law says you cannot fire someone for complaining about violation of a "law regulation or rule." The court found the FCC rule was not that kind of rule so she had no case.

That does not mean as you implied that fox said they have a right to publish false stories.

my final word on the subject......Fox wanted the story changed ....period

This is only one example of why people can say FOX lies

Each time the station asked Wilson and Akre to provide supporting documentation for statements in the story or to make changes in the content of the story, the reporters accused the station of attempting to distort the story. The story never aired.

Where was the lie?

I like House

I don't care What show is on, I refuse to watch Any FOX program. I can do without. It is FAR too important an issue to give them Any business no matter How entertaining a program may be.

just saying LOL

Agreed. Fox needs no comment from the people other than, "Fox Lies."

i'd love to do that... however, i'd get fired if i didnt show up at work, and i cant afford to lose my job

And that is what they are counting on. Depending on your occupation, it may be so. However, if 30 to 50% of the country are striking simultaneously, if the transit systems are not running, if the highways are jammed to a standstill, if telecommunication systems are down, who will be able to show up to work? If a longer strike is sustained, where will employers get skilled workers to replace all those out on strike? Who will train them?

In the extreme that it isn't feasible for you to protest then, what about organizing an extension of the protest on your day off or on the weekend? One idea is to stage a four day protest, from the first Thursday through Sunday in May. That would give weekday workers one weekend day to participate.

One thing is for sure, there is no guarantee how long any of us will have a job if we don't regain control of our government, and stop corporate America from stealing all of our National Wealth. In that respect, it's now or later.

Don't forget the Citizen United decision that the Koch's bought from Scalia and Thomas.
We can't let that go unchallenged.

You don't know much about this subject, do you.

You know if you would tell a little about yourself and how you got so hateful towards America, maybe we can help or direct you to some organization that treats your disorder.

When your number comes up on the Big Economic Disaster Wheel, and it will, no one will care.

Why don't you get a real job? Quit coming on here spreading your fascist messages. Your a paid by the fascist right wing to come on here and spread your hate. Your corporate America Boss's couldn't survive without all the corporate welfare they receive, ABSOLUTELY NO CORPORATION COULD SURVIVE WITHOUT CORPORATE WELFARE THEY RECEIVE FROM US THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS!

ABSOLUTELY NO CORPORATION COULD SURVIVE WITHOUT CORPORATE WELFARE THEY RECEIVE FROM US THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS!

Exactly.

Bravo Bravo

he doesnt know much about anything... it doesnt stop him from weighing in

Please, enlighten us on how the union is their "cash cow" as opposed to a safety net...

How much do the Koch's pay you to antagonize people?

Everyone knows they like buying voices with their billions.

Things we already know to be true.....as reported by news sources and admitted by some their own dumb people.
They paid outsiders to show up at Town Hall meetings and scream about "Obamacare".
They gave tons of money to tea party groups via patriotic sounding organizations while trying to hide the fact that it was really a couple of power hungry Billionaires duping people for their votes.
They bought off Thomas and Scalia and the Tea Party caucus in Congress and they have a whole bunch of the establishment GOP is in their back pocket.
Key GOP committee seats are now held by their former employees.
One of the Koch brothers (David I believe) was introducing himself to all the new Republicans on their first day on the job.
He also had a meeting with one of Boehners top staffers. Fact....it was all over the news.

They are the second richest privately owned company in the country.
They earned over 11 Billion more in profits in recent years because they gave thousands of their own employees pink slips.

They must be drooling at the prospect of having their own Oligarchy.

spot on !!!!

Who's expression ?

the news casters - sorry I should have made that clear

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