The Daily News Record EXPOSED as Fox Light!

This just in from Project Censored via DailyKos:  

“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.

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.”

There you have it Ladies and Gentlemen!  Fox News won the right to bluster, lie, and distort “news” as they see fit.  They stand four-square behind the Free Speech clause in the US Constitution.  It’s their RIGHT to present the news as they see fit.  There is no crime in a news organization LYING to the public.  There is no crime in distorting the news to reflect any political ideological persuasion.  It’s not a crime to misrepresent facts to push an ideological position.  They won a court cast to PROVE IT!

My friends, where do we find out what’s going on?  Who do we turn to for the truth?  One must assume that if Fox is doing it, ALL news organizations distort and represent the news according to an ideological perspective of some sort.  Would it be too much to assume an educated populace?  Is it too far-fetched to think that by reading a broad spectrum of news reports and balancing the various views against each other that a semblance of reality and truth can be determined? 

Of course!  Education!  Liberal thinking!  Do the research.  Find out the facts.  Put information together and determine to the best of your ability what is closest to the truth.  

Mr. Editor, you have the right to bluster, lie, distort, and be as ideological as you want to be!  Please don’t try and pass it off as truth, intellect, or journalism! Your radical, extreme views most obviously reflect your political ideology.  You’ve lost all credibility as a reporter or editor. You are simply a megaphone for the right wing fringe that still supports endless war.