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Mainstream News Gets Court Order to Misinform Public
Many news agencies lie and distort facts, not many have the guts to admit it...in court...positioning the First Amendment as their defense!
Corporations are NOT PEOPLE, why do they get the same set of rights? It's no wonder why so many people spend time reading news on alternative sites like BeforeItsNews.com, or my former business & blog, Apparently Apparel's alternative newsroom.
With the far-reaching capabilities of the Internet, most concerned citizens have taken to the digital "pad & pen". Reminds me of the metonymic adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword." The sentence (if not the idea, which had been expressed in various earlier forms) was coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.
But this is no conspiracy. The simple fact you are reading this on an alternative news website, and not a mainstream one, further proves that you too understand the uselessness of the media propaganda machine.
In 1997, married couple Steve Wilson and Jane Akre began work on a story regarding the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto and recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a milk additive that had been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration but also blamed for a number of health issues.
On August 18, 2000, journalist Jane Akre won $425,000 in a court ruling where she charged she was pressured by Fox News management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information.
The real information: she found out cows in Florida were being injected with RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce milk – and, according to FDA-redacted studies, unintentionally designed to make human beings produce cancer.
Fox lawyers, under pressure by the Monsanto Corporation (who produced RBGH), rewrote her report over 80 times to make it compatible with the company’s requests. She and her husband, journalist Steve Wilson, refused to air the edited segment.
In February 2003, Fox appealed the decision and an appellate court and had it overturned. Fox lawyers argued it was their first amendment right to report false information. In a six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals decided the FCC’s position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a “law, rule, or regulation.”
All American media companies are seen as corporate persons in the eyes of justice, hence they are entitled to lie. The following video offers more details and two concrete cases - FOX "News" and Nike:
So, Fox and the other gladiatorical cable news channels were given the okay to legally lie right around the time of the Iraq War’s birth – when media lies coincidentally hit a peak in both frequency and severity.
I did a Google search related to this story. Here’s what I came up with.
A Google search involving the words “Court of appeals + Fox News + Jane Akre” came up with 1,050 results. The first ten results spoke of this specific story, but of those results, not one was a mainstream media organization.
The results included FoxBGHsuit.com, InjuryBoard,com, ThirdWorldTraveler.org, CeaseSPIN.org, Purefood.com, Relfe.com, SourceWatch.org, OrganicConsumers.org, TheCorporation.com, and DailyKos.com.
A Google search involving the words “Fox News + Jane Akre” brings up almost the same results, the only difference being a Wikipedia page for Jane Akre. On the “External Links” section on Jane’s Wikipedia page, we find an InjuryBoard.com article, as Jane is now editor-in-chief of the website. We also find an interview with Jane and her husband, from a documentary titled “The Corporation,” in which they detail what happened during the ordeal.
A Google News search brings up one article – written by Akre for InjuryBoard.com.
The closest hit to a mainstream media news site is a Baltimore Sun reader/commenter named “gonzoliberal” who has copy-and-pasted the CeaseSPIN.org article into a comment thread. Huffington Post has mentioned the case as well in a series of articles about tainted milk.
No mainstream news organizations – not even Fox television competitors – have reported on Jane Akre’s case for suspected reasons, which won’t be elaborated on.
Putting aside the fact that studies linked the hormone to cancer, the case is likely one of many just like it – especially since Akre and her husband, according to their own accounts, were initially offered a bribe to go away and never speak of the case again.
References
InjuryBoard.com biography: Jane Akre. URL accessed 8 April 2010.
Reason: "The Strange Case of Steve Wilson," John Sugg, May 2006 issue.
Jane Akre biography, Injuryboard.com
Reason, May 2006.
New World Communs. of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre, 866 So. 2d 1231(2003)
New World Communs. of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre, 866 So. 2d 1231(2003)
Prepared Statement: Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, 2 April 1998. URL accessed 8 April 2010.
Florida Laws: FL Statutes – Title XXXI Labor Section 448.01 Legal day's work; extra pay
The Corporation.
Project Censored: The Media Can Legally Lie. 2003. URL accessed 8 April 2010.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Crimes Against Nature. 2004, Harper Collins Publishers, p182.
Society of Professional Journalists for Performing in an Outstanding Ethical Manner.
http://cltampa.com/tampa/wilson-akres-fcc-challenge-dismissed/Content?oid=2027397
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