I believed that Fox News deliberately published incorrect information for partisan plitical reasons. A few days back, they published Mark Foley’s photo captioned (D-FL) three separate times. Ok course, I have no evidence of this except common sense, and some general knowledge of how news operations work.
But I imagine that if some of their production people were put into a witness stand under threat of some legal sanction to discourage perjury, it probably wouldn’t be terribly hard to get an admission from someone.
The problem of course, is finding a venue into the legal system. I don’t think I could claim any damages that would allow me to sue Fox. I doubt that even the Democratic party could establish damages for some kind of defamation/libel/slander case. But maybe I’m wrong… is there anyone or any organization better situated to bring a suit and get some discovery process going?
The other route I can think of would be the FCC. Except I don’t think they have any special rules anout honesty in newscasting. I wouldn’t think for a minute that Fox itself would admit wrong-doing or change how it operates, I just think it would be a public good to have such skulduggery exposed.
Any ideas on how to get these people into either a court or a hearing room giving statements under oath?
To repeat my disclaimer: I have no actual avidence that this happened as a deliberate act.
I think you’d be wasting your time trying to get any network to admit to lying. Whoever typed in the “D” instead of the “R” did it either by accident or because s/he wanted to or because her/his job was on the line. Those conditions remain.
Select a company that advertises on FOX, for example General Motors, Nissan, whatever.
Send the CEO of that company a letter stating that FOX has no credibility, and by association their company has brought into doubt their credibility as well. And you won’t be buying products from them any more.
Be objective, use low-key rational language and include the examples in this thread.
Well, it’s from Project Censored and therefore probably not all that unbiased ( the mainstrem media doesn’t like to talk about this sort of thing ), but according to this FOX not only admits to lying, they claim to have the right, and have been upheld by the courts.
I’m sure I read a story years ago about them trying the same thing in some European court and being slapped down, but I can’t find a link.
You can find more reputable links with the same image. A lot of people here saw it live, and there’s no real dispute THAT it happened. I’m interested in the how and why ot happened.
Did Dan Rather admit he lied? Does any broadcaster admit it lied? Sure we’ve got the Press Complaints Commission and Ofcom here in the U.K., but I haven’t heard mention of anything similar in the U.S. and even with those, any corrections are squirrelled away somewhere inobvious.
I wouldn’ expect O’reilly to admint anything, but maybe some some production schlub got an order to re-write the character-generator text. That’s the kind of person who might admit something under oath. I don’t think O’Reiolly ever SAID Foley was a Democrat, and he personally could plausibly claim to have no idea what graphic was put on air over his commentary.
In a defamation case, the injured party has to show that (1) the information was false, (2) the defendant knew the information was false or was negligent in checking whether it was false, and (3) the false information injured the plaintiff.
Personally, I think you’re making a mountain out of a mole hill. You have no evidence that the error was deliberate, and Fox News could probably show you scores of other references their programming made to Foley recently that accurately referred to him as a Republican.
I stand corrected. I know Fox has numerous broadcast stations, but I don’t know whether the particular program was actally broadcast, or just cablecast. I imagine that might make a difference to the FCC.
Thanks, that makes all the difference in the world. Suddenly, Fox News is the apotheosis of truth because you cleared up that little mistake. Wait, I just checked out Fox News, and they’re no more honest than they ever were before. Well, thanks anyway.
I can definitely tell you how to get news folk to tell the truth; however, you’re thinking within the context of the current legal system, and they’re wise to that. That’s why certain soulless, subhuman shitbags preface their slander with “I believe.” The cheap baststards love the poor-man’s slander. However, if you can get O’Dildoass alone, I will be happy to make him admit to his lies. With a fillet knife and some salt, O’Liesalot will tell you about all his lies.
I’ll tell you step two once you bring the unicorn.
No, seriously, it won’t happen. You couldn’t prove it was a deliberate lie, and even if you did, Fox (or anybody else) would say it was rogue employees.