Tim Geithner: The White House Asked Me to Mislead the Public

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Prickly? No, it doesn't bother me, I'm not a shareholder or anything. I just find the lack of substantiation tiresome. There's a big difference between saying they lie and showing that they lie. If someone were to definitively discredit them, you might make a dent in their ratings.

So we are to believe that Fox, (who won a lawsuit giving them carte blanche to lie,) is to be believed because of their Neilson rating? Sounds like lamestream media to me. It would be much easier for you or your pet troll to provide a factual article other then a weather report that Fox pulled off the AP wire.

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by bobabode

So we are to believe that Fox, (who won a lawsuit giving them carte blanche to lie,) is to be believed because of their Neilson rating? Sounds like lamestream media to me. It would be much easier for you or your pet troll to provide a factual article other then a weather report that Fox pulled off the AP wire.

Sorry but your the one making accusations now prove it or STFU.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Sorry but your the one making accusations now prove it or STFU.

Go fuck yourself. We're at a half dozen times I've requested resources or production of proof of a lying-ass claim you've made about alleged comments of mine. Youre in no position to demand jack shit from anybody ya snivel in little weasel.

[BlueStreak]

Oh, my!!! Politicians mislead? I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!

So what if he did? Leave the damn Social Security alone. Medicare too. I don't care if it helped "drive the deficit". Those are the LAST two things I would cut.

Dave

[MrPots]

Indeed. The fact that our government would cut badly needed services for it's citizens while throwing money hand over fist to develop weapons of mass destruction tells us exactly for whom our lawmakers work. That our government would allow our infrastructure to crumble while building hugely expensive spy networks to spy on it's citizens, again tell us for whom our government works.

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

So we are to believe that Fox, (who won a lawsuit giving them carte blanche to lie,)....

Bob, Bob, Bob. Continuing to repeat an internet myth doesn't make it any more true.

[MrPots]

In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida. In 1997 the team began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The couple produced a four-part series revealing that there were many health risks related to BGH and that Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise.


According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts. Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.(Project Censored #12 1997)

Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows. They further maintained that she deserved protection under Florida's whistle blower law. Akre was awarded a $425,000 settlement. Inexplicably, however, the court decided that Steve Wilson, her partner in the case, was ruled not wronged by the same actions taken by FOX.

FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation." 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. (Anybody surprised this happened in Florida?)

[4-2-7]

No link? I would also need the pdf of actual court documents for this post MrPots.

[4-2-7]

Never mind MrPots,

Google just finds far left loony propaganda sites for these statements.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

No link? I would also need the pdf of actual court documents for this post MrPots.

Try to imagine how much we care.