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when i read the article initially, i laughed. it has some of the usual problems--anonymous sourcing, former employees---but at the same time the information provided squares with what was already quite well known about how fox operates. it's documented in the film "outfoxed" and elsewhere. if this were new information, maybe otto's objections about the source would matter. but it isn't. so they don't.
as for the absurd implication that other networks operate in the same way...not worth the bother of refuting.
when i asked about what might or should be done, i was thinking in the same direction as baraka...they misrepresent their product as news.
preventing fox from calling itself a news network would not prevent them from saying anything they like. they just couldn't pass it off as news.
you can sell soda, but you can't claim it cures illness.
like that.
no free speech violation is involved with that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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