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Televised report shocks business owner
http://www.tonganoxiemirror.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/7123 ^
Posted on 12/08/2004 4:47:19 PM PST by Gomez
Last Wednesday night, Bill McGraw stayed up past his bedtime to watch the 10 o'clock news on KCTV Channel 5.
What the 80-year-old Tonganoxie farmer thought he'd see was an interesting feature that mentioned his longstanding fertilizer business.
Instead, he saw a broadcast that wrongly depicted McGraw's business as an irresponsible company that would sell ammonium nitrate -- in huge quantities -- to anyone who came along.
(Excerpt) Read more at tonganoxiemirror.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: deceit; kansas; liberalmedia; media; mediabias
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To: Gomez
Where is Tonganoxie? Nothing in the excerpt and no keyword clue. And the full story isn't a whole lot of help either.
Another point - at the very least, he needs to file a complaint with the FCC.
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posted on
12/08/2004 6:23:42 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: bism
KCTV is a CBS affiliate.
Top to bottom CBS lacks credibility. If it was interested in truth, CBS would have fired Rather immediately and sanctioned the reporter who slandered this businessman with trumped up charges.
It makes you wonder about all of the 60 Minutes exposes over the years. Was there even a shred of truth in any of them?
To: PAR35
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posted on
12/08/2004 6:51:45 PM PST
by
atari
To: festus
What a combination...borderless America and the Religion of Pieces...
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posted on
12/08/2004 6:53:10 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
To: Repub in a sea of idiots
Tonganoxie is near Kansas City, KS. btw, his lawsuit will be difficult, expensive, and take five years to get to court. Media very hard to sue.
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Beware of the hydrazine itself. It dissolves human flesh.
Ask any ME-163 pilot who had it get loose in his cockpit.
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posted on
12/08/2004 6:58:55 PM PST
by
fire_eye
(Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
To: Dog Gone
He'll hopefully be able to find a good lawyer to get a nice settlement out of the TV station so he can enjoy the rest of his life in peace.
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posted on
12/08/2004 6:59:13 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: atari
Thanks. I added it as a keyword.
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posted on
12/08/2004 7:40:36 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Gomez
Those who "reported" that 20-10-10 is an explosive, (it's not) and called it "ammonium nitrate (AN)" (it's only
half AN) should be fired -- and sued.
As testified at the McVeigh trial, even pure fertilizer grade AN is a poor explosive; explosive-grade AN is specially processed (details omitted) and is specially coated.
Even their claim that a proper ANFO mix explodes easily is bogus; special initiator charges are required.
I hope this gentleman sues the pants off these "news" people. As he implied, these "newsmakers" were creating (not reporting) news -- and slandering him in the process.
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:06:22 PM PST
by
TXnMA
(Back home in God's Country -- and that's where I plan to stay until they "plant" my carcass here!)
To: farmfriend
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:04:40 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Gomez
KCTV5s tabloid journalism has made their newscasts even more unwatchable.
To: PAR35
Hiya PAR35, Tonganoxie is about 30 miles west of Kansas City.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:58:17 PM PST
by
alfa6
To: Gomez; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
12/08/2004 10:23:42 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
To: farmfriend
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posted on
12/09/2004 3:00:31 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: Gomez
Did you take a look at the pic of McGraw? He doesn't look like someone I would want to mess with. And add the fertilizer company into this mix and I wouldn't want to be the reporter, editor or owner of the paper. Hope they have their insurance premiums paid up.
To: Pure Country
Correction: Wouldn't want to be the TV station.....not newspaper. Been up since 4--waaaaay too early for me!
To: Gomez
I know this guy. Channel 5 will be hearing from me.
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posted on
12/09/2004 3:45:18 AM PST
by
bad company
(I'm a new Grandpa.)
To: Gomez
"Like the back fence gossip, so to speak," Kohl said. "It has nothing to do with the truth, it's just because it sounds good -- sounds juicy."
More and more of out broadcast news is fitting this category.
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posted on
12/09/2004 3:52:34 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: bad company
You know the gentleman? Great! We I hope you keep us updated as this moves along. Hope he butchers the LSM station financially as well as an inkling of credibility they ever conceived of, and any affiliate that also irresponsibly ran this piece of BS "story".
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:01:15 AM PST
by
Issaquahking
( Bush won, PROTECT OUR BORDER'S- NOW! We'll handle the PC and the ACLU losers.)
To: Gomez
MSM picking on and making up lies to sell stories at the expense an 80 year old farmer, who's paid his taxes and helped build the society these leeches suck the life out of. Shame.
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posted on
12/09/2004 7:06:54 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(It's my right to publically celebrate Christmas and state my faith in Christ. At least for now.....)
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