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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[TBird4490]

You guys pronounce Fox News weird... It's actually:

Fox Propaganda Delivery System.

The news is silent.

[InuvikPhil]

You want real facts, watch Al Jazeera these days

[menzerna1234]

The politically-controlled media can broadcast any distorted shit they want.

No one is forcing Americans to listen and believe.

The No1 problem is the blissful ignorance of Americans who STUPIDLY believe what they read and see via the American media.

When someone announces anything impactful....the 1st American question is:

Is this fella a Democrat or Republican???

Doesn't matter...

Whether it's a knife or gun.......you're FUCKED.

You can't trust anyone's story anymore.

[menzerna1234]

Ignorant and easily manipulated Americans shd stop watching mainly American media.

They shd watch and pay attention to the media from other countries/regions to get a BALANCED and less biased perception of what's REALLY happening out there.

70% Americans don't have passports, which means, majority of Americans learn about the world from WITHIN America.....American media+Internet.

That's how the gradual, imperceptible brainwashing works.

Oh yes....did you idiots finally find the WMDs?

[mazellezes]

@vmoehlman1

Sadly so true. We can't assume that the news is objective, not even as much as we could a few years ago (which was already bad enough)

My kid got an assignment to watch the news and pick a subject, then write a paragraph about it, goes 2 school & gets into trouble because what she chose apparently wasn't considered 'news'. She got her info off direct tv newsmix, which has fox/fox business/msnbc/cnn. Where do we tell r kids 2 get their news from?

'Run it by me first kiddo'

Sad

[Joeggernaut777]

If all the news does is lie to us, why do we keep watching it?

[Kayjee17]

So... Only Fox News can lie to us? CNN or MSNBC can't? Seriously, ALL the major news stations have some kind of bias - so why not look for a harder target? We all know Fox News is jumping in front of the gun to be shot down on this subject. Check out the rest of the so-called news outlets in order to at least appear unbiased in your opinions.

[barrybear2011]

@dragnet53 LMFAO "zionist shill", and yes that's what Hartmann is. Just another "progressive" "Israel-firster".

[damarauder]

@InuvikPhil Owned by the same people, vomitting the same propaganda

[barrettarq]

THE TRUTH FOX DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW Can bee ssen at

CorruptionWatchList

. ORG

[Jahkillian]

AHHHH Why did Reagan do that?

[1cabdi]

@InuvikPhil fuck al jazeera it's a tool for the globalist there is No difference between al jazeera and fox "NEWS" rt has the real facts!!!