Should the FCC investigate Faux News for false advertising?

[KensPen]

does anyone else laugh at the term "fair and balanced"?

the other day they had technical difficulties,
so they ran minutes of self promotion,
everyone on their airways asserting how fair they were, "you decide"
it ran for minutes,

then they came back and slammed democrats for the next segment.....

what I find troubling is sooooooooo many conservatives really see them as impartial,
no wonder they see media bias everywhere.

[brainwashed_youth]

1. no

What ur saying is kinda silly. No, I'm not that big a fan of Fox, but they have just as much right as everybody else to be on air.





p.s. I know I just said I'm not that big a Fox fan, but I actually have grown to like O'Reilly recently. No, I don't agree with him on everything, but he's nowhere near as bad as Hannity or Limbaugh.

[KensPen]

2. OF COURSE

they have the right to sell their right wing swill on the air,

I was only making a tounge in cheek suggestion, based on their obvious bias, with slogans that assert impartiality.

[brainwashed_youth]

3. oh ok

thought you was being serious.

[Wapsie B]

4. You mean

the Michael Powell run FCC? He'd sooner fellate every on-air host on Faux than investigate them for anything.

[KensPen]

7. maybe the better business bureau?

it annoys me to listen to "Mancow's" daily viscious factually inaccurate rants go unchallenged....
and then break aways to their fair and balanced commercials.

[buckeye1]

5. The FCC.

This agency has no authority over cable feeds that people pay for. Quit watching or cut the cable. I find Fox tales very boring.

[BR_Parkway]

6. No, they don't * as a "boob"

so only Janet needs to be investigated

[arcane1]

8. Fox has already been granted the LEGAL RIGHT to lie on-air

the FCC guidelines about honest reporting are just that- guidelines, with no legal weight. Of course, it took FOX several appeals in order to get this ruling, but they got it.

Link to the court's ruling:
http://www.2dca.org/opinion/February%2014,%202003/2D01-529.pdf

and a small write-up of the issue:

http://www.straybulletins.com/LMB/weblog/archive/2003_02.html
Fla. Court Overturns Reporter's Jury Award- this one pisses me off because I've been writing about this story for years. Back in 1997, two Tampa reporters put together a series of television news segments about the use of artificial Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) in dairy cows to increase their milk production. The two found that rBGH posed a risk to human health, and that there was really no way of knowing if the milk Floridians were drinking came from rBGH cows or not. Enter Monsanto, one of the most evil corporations on planet Earth. Before the story aired, Monsanto (which manufactures and sells "Posilac," the most popular brand of rBGH) intimidated the reporters' television station into re-editting the piece so that it was "more fair" to Monsanto's point of view. But repeated re-writse were not good enough for the scared execs, and eventually the reporters were fired for refusing to lie in their story.

The reporters recently sued their old employers, claiming that they had violated the state's whistleblower act. The two argued that they were about to "blow the whistle" on their station's illegal practice of distorting the news, and that their station illegally fired them in retaliation. They won the suit.

And then their win was overturned. This latest judge found that the whistleblower claim didn't hold up, because her station did not violate the law. And since they didn't violate the law, they couldn't have a whistle blown on them.

The ruling explicitly claims that when a TV station distorts the news, it is not violating FCC regulations. In other words, it is perfectly legal for television news to lie to you. Which is good for the Fox News Channel, I suppose.

[KharmaTrain]

9. You Can Trademark Almost Anything...

For my money that misnomer was dispatched with it's suit against Franken...almost all I know know refer to this GOOP spin machine as

TOTALLY WITHOUT MERIT!

<sorry, not good at linking here>...

[Must_B_Free]

10. Yellow Jopurnalism should be a crime

Spreading lies is criminal and they do it in the way of a crime organization

[BigDaddyLove]

11. Honestly, I don't think many conservatives see........

Fox as being impartial, rather they love the fact that they call themselves 'fair and balanced' because it pisses us off so much.