Thom Hartmann: Why Fox News has the Right to Lie to Us

Ever wonder why it is that Fox News can lie over and over again - yet continue to call itself "News"? It's because Fox News is a corporation - and ever since that 1886 Supreme Court case of Southern Pacific Railroad versus Santa Clara County when a rogue court reporter named JC Bancroft Davis slipped corporate personhood into the legal record - the courts have ruled time and time again that corporations - since they have all the rights that actual people have - could also lie just like people can.

Except for one time. Back in 1998 - a political activist named Mark Kasky sued Nike alleging that Nike was lying to its customers by publishing in the San Francisco Examiner a letter assuring everyone that the corporation's workers around the world enjoy basic labor rights like a minimum wage - health and safety regulations - and equal opportunity employment. Kasky knew this claim wasn't true. A 1996 audit of the Nike revealed that workers in Vietnam were routinely exposed to cancer-causing chemicals that were illegal in the United States. And a Mothers Jones article later cited a Nike-funded study that found, "evidence of physical and verbal abuse and sexual harassment at nine of its contract factories in Indonesia." After realizing he and thousands of other Nike customers were lied to and were buying Nike products under false assumptions - Kasky took the corporation to court. And in 2002 - Kasky won his case before the California Supreme Court which ruled that Nike did indeed break laws against unfair competition and false advertising...

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[clarinet5001]

17 people work at FOX news corp and love their large paychecks so much that they willingly try to trash the country for their own good, and this is what they call "change."

[maxor92100]

this is freaking unbelievable, USA the country of freedom ??

At least in France we protect people and not money

[Sharon Roth]

Anyone who thinks that any corporation or for that matter any media outlet are not, at one time or another, lying, suffer from child like naivety. Everybody has an agenda. Even RT.

Question everything. Research what is said.

[jkwhitedog]

To be fair, all liberals look like mental.

[FCMaccabiHaifa]

Many things, for example, they title a video "Gaza aftermath : ruins after Israeli bombardment", then show videos of buildings inside Israel that were attaked, falsley labled as Palestinian buildings.

/watch?v=Tq4J9ykZFck

It's just a small example that I remember as an Israeli watching it, there were many more

[poopmantle]

about?

[FCMaccabiHaifa]

I personally caught RussiaToday lying more than once throughout many videos.

[LSH20101]

Sing it Thom. GOP TV..we distort to incite

[Ela Lamblin]

nobody can outfox fox. they are weasels.

[nintynine waystodie]

He's your hero, read it and stipulate it yourself, tired of you people asking me to prove shit on your hump buddy then calling me a lair simply cause you don't want to hear it. And yes he did inherit it and I didnt say he didn't, BUT he CREATED twice the deficit in half the time it took bush to create the same amount. Just cause we where in debt is no excuse for making it bigger, the blame games over, every time he raises that debt ceiling, its on you morons.