I can't make this stuff up.

The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdock, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.

In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.



http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

The right to lie. Egregiously! And when added to the "deceptive" article Z posted from the Catholic rag it's just too ironic.

It fits in with Fox's "Hollywood Squares" style of journalism summarized in their tag line, "We report; you decide."

Love to see it in a criminal case!

Your Honour I call upon my rights under the 1st amendment to lie as needed.
BTW you do know the Rupert is from Adelaide.

Cindy

You should have kept him there and spared the rest of us.  Yeesh, what were you thinking unleashing that stuff?

Who gave him immediate citizenship so he could buy all those newspapers? Does money talk?

Cindy

As Bob Dylan once said about America:
Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Money not only talks in the USA, it has a huge following of listeners.


BTW, I think the ruling was correct, odd that it was, to have it any other way would put the government in charge of the news, though when Bush sent talking points to Faux it was getting hard to tell.  I just liked it that Fox had to get up and say it.

Dylan was wrong.

Money doesn't talk, it rapes.