Please Remind your Trump Chumps about Fox News Admitting they Invent Stories

[LaydeeBug]

In 2003, Florida's Second Circuit upheld Fox New's argument that they can and do falsify their reporting. We are very familiar with the Roger Ailes quote, that I am badly paraphrasing here, "We paid (such and such) billion dollars for those airwaves and the news is what we tell them it is"

It is starting to make a crack.

Also, constantly remind them about false equivocation. It's the first thing they do when you point out the Fox Fake News Case.

http://www.librarygrape.com/2009/06/court-fox-news-has-first-amendment.html

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. I had to bite the bullet last night - keep peace with Hubby..

So, he calls on the way from work - honey (I always know he wants something) some friends are coming over tonight and bringing a football pool squares for the super bowl...see, after the election we withdrew from most of our community activities..we are like only 1 couple of maybe 3 who are Dems - he likes this couple but didn't know how they vote..I never met them -

He promised me, he told them not to bring up politics...okay, so they come over, now I am wary, but being educated in the etiquette of hosting, I was cordial, but guarded....I cannot even talk to these people, let alone try to educate them, they are not worth my time and energy....I would rather chew tobacco...

After pool selection, few beers, small talk, kinda get to know ya', this gal, most gregarious, innocent enough, starts talking about ceramics, and I should join her etc etc..she shows me some pics of her figurines coyotes, wolves, and quail - well, out of her mouth, she says "I made these quail for MY REPUBLICAN QUAyLe - boy, did the atmostphere change (for me) - subtly, I had very little more to say..hubby didn't hear her - oh, I was still cordial enough - not sure if they even noticed...this could have gone south very quickly - but, for my hubby's sake..I bit the bullet....

When he gets back from golf this AM, we will have a discussion...I won't hurt him, too much....

[LaydeeBug]

3. "I know Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Jack Kennedy"

Everytime I hear Quayle, that's the first thing I think of

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. That is awesome - I only remembered potato or was it potatoe - LOL

I wanted to say it so bad..they don't call me mum for nuttin'..be well..

[tammywammy]

2. Sigh, that lawsuit is not what you think it was.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/foxlies.asp

[LaydeeBug]

4. except that it kind of is...

"...In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy.” Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.

During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased… It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She never had a legal claim.”

http://projectcensored.org/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/

[jmg257]

5. Interesting facts - thanks!

the fact that the case at hand did not involve the national Fox News cable channel (the case substantially predates the Fox News cable channel's current 24-hour coverage), but rather a local Tampa Bay television station (WTVT) that was an affiliate station of the Fox network.

Additionally, the events that led up to the "Fox lies" case were not about the station's day-to-day programming; rather, the legal battle to which the rumor refers was about a husband-and-wife reporting team (Jane Aker and Steve Wilson) who objected to being involved in an unaired story about bovine growth hormones (BGH) due to what the pair believed was a corporate conflict of interest. The reporters claimed they had been unfairly terminated from their jobs for "resisting WTVT's attempts to distort or suppress the BGH story":