Florida Court Rules It’s Legal for Press to Lie
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June 28th, 2012
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How much do you believe of what’s on that “trusted” news broadcast? A recent Florida ruling suggests that your favorite news anchor can say just about anything and pose it as truth, even if it’s a complete fabrication.
A Florida Appeals court ruled that it is legal for press organizations to lie, conceal, or distort information. The decision, which reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of Fox Television journalist Jane Akre, declares that no law is being broken if false information is given in a television broadcast.
In the August 2000 trial, Akre charged she was pressured by management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information in a story about the use of growth hormones in dairy cows. The six-person jury was unanimous in concluding that Akre was fired because she threatened to report the station for pressuring her to report the false information.
Fox’s attorneys’ arguments failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case dismissed since there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news. The attorneys argued that the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the airwaves.
In a written decision, the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.
Source: Sierra Times via Baltimore Chronicle
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WOW, didn’t see this on the local stations!
Well, gee, what a surprise. Imagine all those blow-dried air-heads on TV actually lying to their audience. Good heavens, even. What will be next? Politicians lying? Oh, the humanity!
In any case, it is also legal for viewers and listeners to turn off their radios and TVs should they wish to implement their own personal BSRP, or BS Reduction Plan.
We got the bubble headed bleach blonde who comes on at five.
She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye.
It’s interesting when people die.
The lame-stream news is nothing more than info-tainment now, that is it, nothing more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xr31XbSOU
First I heard of this. It makes me want to vomit.
On the other hand, I thought everybody knew that Fox lies and distorts the truth.