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In reply to the discussion: What Foxnews does should be illegal. Why isn't it? [View all]reddread
(6,896 posts)From FoxBGHSuit.com:
Fox appealed and prevailed February 14, 2003 when an appeals court issued a ruling reversing the jury, accepting a defense argument that had been rejected by three other judges on at least six separate occasions
The whistle-blowing journalists, twice refused Fox offers of big-money deals to keep quiet about what they knew, filed their landmark lawsuit April 2, 1998 and survived three Fox efforts to have their case summarily dismissed. It is the first time journalists have used a whistleblower law to seek a legal remedy for being fired by for refusing to distort the news. Steve and Jane are now considering an appeal to the Florida state Supreme Court.
the problem isnt the 1st Amendment, the problem is the FCC, Fairness, public interest,
a lot of things.
it is being glossed over by defeatists.
the public deserves to expect better from their airwaves, no matter how deregulation and
parsing has been employed against those interests.
Demand better, and dont settle.
study the facts of how our stratified layers of corruption in courts rots our country.
Has the supreme court had any input on this whistleblower case?
obviously they had to keep pushing and do some pretty serious maneuvers to get their way.
it is not about free speech.
it is about the public interest.
it is about democracy.
anybody care enough to fight for it?
whats on cable tonight, anyway?