Michael C:
You’re post comes off as less than charitable. Maybe you should try harder to respect others opinions. Peace.
If you are pained by my post then I apologise, my intention is to challenge not to hurt.
On the subject of Fox News
usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-07-20-advocacy-fox-news_x.htm
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News’ use of the slogan “Fair and Balanced” constitutes deceptive advertising, two political advocacy groups claimed Monday in a petition filed with the Federal Trade Commission.
Liberal
MoveOn.org and historically nonpartisan Common Cause assert that Fox News’ reports are “deliberately and consistently distorted and twisted to promote the Republican Party of the U.S. and an extreme right-wing viewpoint.” (**Related story: **
Documentary exposes Fox News)
Alleging consumer fraud, the complaint calls for the FTC to order Fox News, consistently the highest-rated cable news network, to cease and desist from using the slogan.
Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause, said the legal actions were consistent with the First Amendment. “Fox has no obligation under the law to be fair and balanced, just not to market itself as fair and balanced,” he said.
After a press conference announcing the petition, members of
MoveOn.org and Common Cause marched to the Fox News Headquarters to hand out DVDs of the recent documentary
Outfoxed, which alleges a pattern of right-wing biases in the network’s reporting, citing statements by former Fox employees and internal memos.
The documentary is
Exhibit A in the FTC petition.
At the press conference, Common Cause’s Pingree said the petition was consistent with the 34-year-old citizen advocacy group’s history, and a response to the “growing firestorm about what’s going on with the media.”
Fox has sought to trademark its “Fair and Balanced” motto, which also has been met with legal action.
Independent Media Institute, a not-for-profit promoter of independent journalism, filed a petition last December with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging Fox’s trademark request.
The IMI’s petition claims that the term “fair and balanced” is so prevalent as to be generic, and is “entirely mis-descriptive” when it comes to Fox News.
Last summer, Fox News Channel tried to block publication of liberal humorist Al Franken’s book,
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, saying it made unauthorized use of Fox’s “fair and balanced” slogan.
The judge dismissed Fox’s case, saying it was “wholly without merit,” and the trademark “Fair and Balanced,” registered by Fox in 1998, was weak. He also said the network was “trying to undermine the First Amendment.”
news.tbo.com/news/MGB2LJEHJ3E.html
Two former WTVT, Channel 13, reporters filed a petition Monday with the Federal Communications Commission to deny renewal of the station’s license for ``intentionally airing false and distorted news reports’’ in 1997.
Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, who worked for Channel 13 in 1996 to 1997, say the station violated the public trust by ordering them to put a favorable slant on news reports they were preparing about a growth hormone given to dairy cattle in Florida.
The married couple, who now live in Jacksonville, say Fox-owned WTVT feared a lawsuit from hormone maker Monsanto because their reports would have raised questions about health hazards.
The couple say they refused to alter the story and were fired.
That picture of him is killing me
That is classic.God Bless
