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Posted on 07/19/2004 8:45:43 AM PDT by cablenewsr
At Press Conf., Slogan Is Called "Consumer Fraud and False Advertising"
MoveOn.org and Common Cause have filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission "asking the agency to stop FOX News' use of the deceptive tagline" Fair & Balanced, the groups announced this morning. Here is the press release. http://www.cablenewser.com/original/outfoxed_legal_pr.htm
"'Unfair and Unbalanced But Unwaveringly Republican' would be an honest tagline," said Michael Pertschuk, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Carter. "FOX has a constitutional right to argue in public debate that their news coverage is fair and balanced, but it doesn't have the right to market its network services to prospective viewers and advertisers by masquerading as a news network, and by seeking falsely to monopolize the promotional tagline 'Fair and Balanced.'"
The press release says that "MoveOn.org members handed DVD copies of the documentary to FOX employees entering and leaving the News Channel's building in Manhattan before and during the 10AM press conference."
(Excerpt) Read more at cablenewser.com ...
Fox rules. Put some ice on it troll, and prepare for a charge.
Another one post wonder who registered today.
I see moveon.org has utterly no understanding of the First Amendment or the truth. Not that either is a surprise.
moveon.org needs to move on, it's false advertising if they don't.........
Will you read me a story?
The very fact that a leftie outfit like Moveon.org is slamming FOX while leaving NYT, LAT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC etc. unscathed speaks volumes.
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Oooh. He has a website. Now I'm really afraid.
Taste great ? not in my opinion.
less filling? no proof of that.
get the point?
In this case it's a rather weak attempt to get even with the right for sliming Michael Moore.
"Common Cause "
So many of these "public interest" groups like Common Cause started as what should have been nonpartisan groups. But alas they ended up just another left wing group. The is even more irony that a partisan group named Common Cause would claim FNC was misleading the public?
Its a leftist site too. Click on any of the Archieves and you'll find articles taking a swipe at Republicans.....no, wait that could be CNN or MSNBC also!
--Put some ice on it troll, and prepare for a charge.--
have I found a troll before the ping?? yee haa!!
Yeah, kick him around while he's still alive and breathing. Do beware that they smell worse before they're zotted than afterwards.
Isnt the MSNBC slogan, Americas most watched news?
FOX News is the only fair and balanced out there. All the rest are liberal pimps.
RATS have the luxury of having multiple outlets that swing way left. Fox is indeed balanced, but does not give us Conservatives an exclusively right winged news outlet. For this reason, I don't even watch Fox News very much. Why should I listen to balance when the other side is so cliche'.
I would love to have a right winged version of ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/CNBC/CSPAN/MSNBC...etc. Until then, I will stick to FreeRepublic.
Wow, you all sure are kind to newcomers.
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