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UPDATE:
COST RISES EVEN HIGHER FOR FOX NEWS WHISTLEBLOWERS
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 AN
INSIDE LOOK AT
CORPORATE JOURNALISM
with
FOX News whistleblowers Jane Akre and Steve Wilson
featured in the film, The
Corporation |
| Thursday,
October 14, 2004 at 7:30 PM
University of the Arts Connelly Lecture Hall - Terra Building
211 South Broad Street, Philadelphia
(between Walnut & Locust streets) |
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Come hear this first-hand account of censorship and industry intimidation
with investigative reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, the first
journalists to use the Whistleblowers Act after being fired for
refusing to distort the news.
In 2000, a Florida jury unanimously determined that Fox ordered
them to falsify their reporting about health risks associated
with growth hormones found in milk, and that Akre's threat to
inform the FCC of Fox's misconduct was the sole reason for their
termination.
Later an appeals court overturned that ruling on the grounds that
it is not against the law for news organizations to lie or distort
the truth.
Akre and Wilson's story has recently been featured in the documentary,
"The
Corporation" and the book, Into the Buzzsaw.
Co-sponsored by the College
of Media and Communication at the University of the
Arts
For more information call 215-563-1100
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"Every
editor has the right to kill a story and any honest reporter will
tell you that happens from time to time when a news organization's
self interest wins out over the public interest. But when media
managers who are not journalists have so little regard for the
public trust that they actually order reporters to broadcast false
information and slant the truth to curry the favor of special
interests, that is the day any responsible reporter has to stand
up and say, 'No way!'"
--
Steve Wilson |
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