I thought not...
Posted on 07/19/2004 12:57:52 PM PDT by Pokey78
NEW YORK On a day when newspapers around the country reported on some of the more than 3,000 local house parties Sunday night promoting the new documentary "Outfoxed," activists from MoveOn.org, Common Cause and other groups in New York announced a drive to strip the Fox News Channel of its "fair and balanced" slogan -- and then marched on the Fox studios in midtown Manhattan.
The group of about 50 organizers and lawyers attempted to present Fox officials with a petition, legal papers, and a copy of the DVD of "Outfoxed," with little apparent success. Some handed out copies of the DVD to Fox employees as they entered or exited the building.
Moveon.org announced at a press conference that it had asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to halt Fox News' use of the allegedly misleading "fair and balanced" tagline. The groups filed the action under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which deals with deceptive practices in the advertising and marketing of cable television programming.
"Fox News is misleading its viewers by calling its partisan programming 'fair and balanced,'" Wes Boyd, co-founder of MoveOn.org, said in a statement. "There is nothing fair about deceptive advertising, and there is nothing balanced about telling only one side of the story. The Federal Trade Commission and Congress must act to prevent this misleading marketing from further harming consumers and public trust in the media."
Fox News has denounced the documentary's own fairness and its use of internal Fox memos, some of which were also quoted in a New York Times Magazine story.
Charles Geraci (cgeraci@editorandpublisher.com) is a reporter for E&P.
This is going to be good. Better make some popcorn.
Oh, so MorOn.org (intentional typo) says that Fox News is biased but their website, as well as CNN, PMSNBC, and all those are fair and balanced...are they really that stupid or what?
What's funny here is that many people who might be watching CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc. may stray over to Fox News just out of curiosity. Once there, most people stay.
We need to march on CNN.
Can I ask the FTC to take action about stupidity?
And Roger Ailes says "Just spell my name right."
LOL! Pulling up my chair to watch!
I hope Fox News did their homework on Move-On and who is sponsoring them and their communist ideas. Fox can really hit home on this and it will get on the mainstream news if they do it. Fox News has an opportunity to blow MOVE-ON out of the water! They better use it.
Sounds like the left is running scared.
Surely we can expect these idiots to protest CNN's "the most trusted name in news" slogan too / sarcasm off.
Since I don't stray to MSNBC, CNN etc...what slogans are they using these days?
Basically, this 'protest' was a complete failure.
Yes they are.
They must not have listened to their most recent abortion, Bevis and Butthead Radio, aka Air America... It is so hilarious, their slogan, repeated endlessly, is "unfiltered news" which is so off the wall I spit out coffee just thinking about it.
Just wait 'til the FTC tells MoveOn to move on. We'll probably be treated to a "documentary" on Bill O'Reilly's secret love affair with the head of the FTC. In the meantime, MoveOn will expose how Fox is responsible for both global warming and male baldness.
Yes, they're really that stupid...
Perhaps we should march on the NY Times to force them to stop using the misleading tag line "All The News That's Fit To Print".
Teo words: Loser pays.
I thought not...
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