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Your airwaves are being used to televise propaganda. Pure and simple.
The President got off a terrific speech yesterday, calling upon both Americans and Europeans to put aside their complaints in order to form a better partnership:
It’s always harder to forge true partnerships and sturdy alliances than to act alone, or to wait for the action of somebody else. It’s more difficult to break down walls of division than to simply allow our differences to build and our resentments to fester. So we must be honest with ourselves. In recent years we’ve allowed our Alliance to drift. I know that there have been honest disagreements over policy, but we also know that there’s something more that has crept into our relationship. In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.
On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. They are not wise. They do not represent the truth. They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated. They fail to acknowledge the fundamental truth that America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America.
So I’ve come to Europe this week to renew our partnership, one in which America listens and learns from our friends and allies, but where our friends and allies bear their share of the burden. Together, we must forge common solutions to our common problems.
So let me say this as clearly as I can: America is changing, but it cannot be America alone that changes…
The apparatchik mutts at Fox News weren’t even close…
There’s not even a pretense at Fox ‘News’ any more that they’ll broadcast reality.
It’s purely a propaganda outlet. They’re your airwaves–screw Fox:
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There has not been a pretence for a long time. When they fired a woman for refusing to lie about the danger of Monsanto and their bovine growth hormone (BGH), the court ruled against her.
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” 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.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased… It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She never had a legal claim.” “
http://www.projectcensored.org…..gally-lie/
I clicked your links, and I’m gob-smacked–absolutely dead-on right you are, blueb. It’s rotten far beyond a civilzed Sunday…
Bet you thought I was directing you to a phoney site at the link? Freedom of the press is guaranteed but I don’t think that the freedom to lie was exactly what the framer’s intended..’g’. The video that used to explain this whole story was removed by youtube. She is still exposing corporate corruption.
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” Monsanto can afford very good lawyers, who write very descriptive letters which had the intended effect. The story my husband and I produced never ran and we lost our jobs.
A lawsuit we filed as whistleblowers was successful in front of a Tampa jury, but leave it to the 2nd DCA in Florida to overturn the verdict. That’s when I got a taste of how the system can be so distorted – how do three appellate judges, who never spent one day listening to evidence in our case and observing the witnesses, get to second-guess the jury, who spent five weeks there!
The case opened the door to meeting some amazing people around the world, speaking about issues such as the U.S. media, Monsanto and genetically engineered food. Oh yes, and the bovine growth hormone that was used to rev up dairy cows around the country. Consumers aren’t too keen on it, and the product is losing sales dramatically in the U.S. “
http://www.injuryboard.com/jane-akre/
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Jane and her husband’s story was part of “The Corporation”.
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” The movie performs a running psychoanalysis of this entity with the characteristics of a prototypical psychopath: a callous unconcern for the feelings and safety of others, an incapacity to experience guilt, an ingrained habit of lying for profit, etc. We are swept away on a demented odyssey through an altered cosmos, in which artificial chemicals are created for profit and incidentally contribute to a cancer epidemic; in which the folks who brought us Agent Orange devise a milk-increasing drug for a world in which there is already a glut of milk; in which an American computer company leased its systems to the Nazis–and serviced them on a monthly basis–so that the Holocaust could go forward as an orderly process. “
http://www.amazon.com/Corporat…..038;sr=1-1
“There’s not even a pretense at Fox ‘News’ any more that they’ll broadcast reality.”
Not that I watch Faux, but even surfing by it has been my perception that they are becoming even more shrill than before. Running scared, maybe?
The FCC is going to hear about it from me. I’ll probably end up in Gitmo, but what the hell? All my peeps will be there with me.
We know what kind of people were known in the justice department at that time. Florida was run by Jeb bush in 2003 with a strong responsibility to keep things smooth for big bro.
I think it’s time to test the whole lying on tv mind set.
People are angry that they were lied too. AND there was not much press about the ability given to Fox to lie.
I do think it’s time. Or even send in complaints to the fCC.
Not at all, blueb–bring on the challenge and the learning…
FCC online: https://esupport.fcc.gov/sform2000/formE!input.action?form_page=2000E
Phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322)
Fox E-mail: newsmanager@foxnews.com
Phone: 1-888-369-4762 and press ‘3′
Geez–Buddha love you, you blew my little post out of the water: bluebutterfly’s friend’s plight, unfortunately documented in ‘The Corporation’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre
Was this broadcast…or cable/satellite? Sadly the FCC basically says they don’t regulate the latter – well except when they want to!
As to broadcast…how about Limbaugh’s recent statement about PM Gordon Brown “slobbering all over Ogama” that he might contract “anal poisoning”! Talk about a sexual or excretory reference! Disgusting! And Limbaugh is BROADCAST on over 600 Stations nationally! That’s an area where the FCC has gone after public radio and college stations after warnings were aired and at times when unsupervised kids would be unlikely to be in the audience. It’s assailed stations for stray expletives that were clearly not even, in context, a sexual reference (i.e. Bono’s “F**kin’ Amazing!”).
Yet Limbaugh can, without a warning, in daytime hours, get away with this?
Limbaugh says Obama will give Brown “Anal Poisoning”
It’s clearly an explicit reference to oral-anal intercourse…disgusting, depraved, and at a time when kids might be listening in on a radio station. Not even a warning for parents. And it wasn’t from a “guest”, or the result of him jamming his thumb…it was an intentional part of his shtick. Part of a series of homophobic references to anal sex that he has made recently.
So if your writing the FCC challenge ‘em on this double-standard, too.
The FCC went after Howard Stern for a hell of a lot less than Limbaugh’s reference.
Problem is, Limbaugh will turn any FCC action into Obama attacking him and trying to shut him down.