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Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship
Khashishi writes "The LA times and the Associated Press report that the FCC v. Fox Television Stations case is being heard in the Supreme Court. The FCC policy would impose a heavy fine on use of 'indecent' words on broadcast television, which Fox and others are claiming is a violation of free speech. The case was appealed after being ruled in Fox's favor in a federal appeals court in New York. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia support the FCC policy of censorship." Here's a transcript (PDF) of the oral arguments.
What about editing the pictures of journalists from other news sources to make them look worse?
What about Fox News editing wikipedia pages related to itself against wikipedia's terms of service?
What about unprofessionally involving themselves in the Terry Schiavo case, repeatedly violating journalism ethics and skewing facts to make it a partisan issue, as John Gibson put it, "Republicans stand for parents' right and life, and Democrats have sided for [a] questionable husband and dying." when in fact polls showed that most republicans supported removing the tube, and calling the story "Terry's fight"?
What about Mark Foley, a republican congressman in trouble for sending sexually explicit text mesages and emails to an underage pages being identified as a 'democrat'?
What about Anne Coulter saying, "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot." So..." and several other Fox News commentators backing her up when she was criticized by other media?
Yeah, not biased at all. Please. Fox News should be shut down, immediately, so Americans are no longer fooled by this joke that calls itself 'Fair and Balanced'
There is no liberal media*. Show me some evidence.
It is called liberal media by people who don't like anyone the talks about or reports on views that are different from theirs.
*we're talking about large broadcasters here.
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