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To: Stump

If I remember right, the reporter also was involved in setting up some of the very things that the report was exposing. IOW, it was a hit piece from the get-go. The reporter created the news just like the NBC gas tank on the chevy pick-up......


23 posted on 07/13/2005 1:50:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (HURRICANES: God's way of telling you it's time to clean out the freezer...............)
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To: Red Badger

"It's one of the very few cases where a news organization has been found liable for damages based not on the story but on the way they got the story," said Jane Kirkley, the executive director of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/23/food.lion/


24 posted on 07/13/2005 1:53:37 PM PDT by Stump
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To: Red Badger; Stump
The 'reporters' lied to get the jobs then filmed themselves doing bad stuff.

If you think this behaviour constitutes honest reporting, you have a bright future as Dan Rather's intern.

31 posted on 07/13/2005 2:03:32 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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