Defrauding American's what?
I had to shorten the first sentence to get within 100 characters so I was fiddling around with wording to make it coherent.
I just forgot about the apostrophe and forgot to delete it.
CBS, through its affiliates' licenses to use broadcast frequencies that belong to the public, is a repository of the public trust. Its employees, acting within the course and scope of their actual and apparent authority, have deliberately and knowingly abused that trust for the most venal of motives ? motives that are antithetical to the function of the press in a free and democratic society.
You should read Beldar's piece and go to the Hewitt link.