If I was promised a story in a book I buy and

it turns out to have blank pages, don't I have a right to take the publisher and the bookseller to court if they don't refund my money or give me a book that has the story printed on it?

By the same logic, if I turn on a news channel, that promises fair and balanced news, shouldn't that cover the real international news and national news stories? If I get tabloid news and propaganda instead, isn't this a violation of truth in advertising and shouldn't a class action suit be filed against Faux?

I'm not a lawyer and far from it, but isn't there a way to demand that these news outlets deliver what they advertise? I would like to see a billion dollar class action lawsuit filed against Faux for deliberate and biased propaganda and covering up of real news items by airing tabloid gossip items instead.

Go google fox +lie +court and read all about it.

It's sick, but there it is.

a note, maybe we need a different court. Maybe even at a county level, something can be done, like in superior court for instance.

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

So it seems that Monsanto plays dirty pool. I still think there is a way.

While you're filing suit, don't forget to include Headline News - perhaps the most glaring example of what you've referred to above.

Not long ago, if you just wanted news and not the personality-based programs featuring creatures such as Zahn, O'Reilly, etc, you could flip on HLN and get a quick rundown of what's happening. Yes, it was full of propaganda, but they at least gave some occasional information about what had happened in Iraq that day.

Now, with their new "Prime Time" lineup, the tabloidization of HLN is complete. Instead of news, we get an hour of a trashy entertainment show and another hour of celebrity trials via the execrable Nancy Grace. One would think that such programming is exactly the opposite of what is advertised - Headline News - but the news is an uncomfortable thing for AOL/Time Warner when everything is going so badly. So, instead, we get total garbage.

if the most egregious offender, Faux, can be brought down, then I think it will act as a lesson for the other channels to clean house. If not then they should be sued too.

Seriously they do this often, they will "report" about the release of a video game or movie. This is news?

news. When the "Titanic" was released, he had all his newspapers running front page stories about the Titanic instead of the real front page news.

As far as I'm concerned, since Bush took office, news has been one big commercial praising him, his deeds and his christianity. Also, they never mention when he screws up, which is always.

:puke:

None of the news outlets are able to deliver what was once considered daily news. They are all wrapped into the popularity contest of sensationalism and personal-interest stories and are now forms of entertainment, rather than real reporters of the news.

All of the networks seem to be on their last legs of even delivering an evening newscast and since they claim this is due to ratings, I make it a habit of writing in every time I see a story that is total crap and complain mightily about "junk news" being aired on a thirty minute newscast. I don't know how many times I've read online of something vital occurring, then I scan the networks to see if any choose to cover whatever seems to me is an important "happening"...if they don't, I complain and if they do, I praise the effort. I know this is a tactic used by right-wingers, which they managed very effectively during last year's election campaign and also during the first year of the Iraq invasion, so I try to do my part to counteract that. I've had a running dialogue going with their email flunkies at both ABC and CBS, for a few years now, and while I'm sure it doesn't do much good, it does make me feel better.

Now that CNN has been taken over by doofuses, I've been writing to them too, especially over the total lack of any "headlines" to be found on their Headline News. I rarely ever look at Fox, unless there's a certain viewpoint from "the other side" that I need a grip on; it's always been nothing but a bunch of propaganda perverts, as far as I'm concerned.

But the propaganda we're being dished by all the major news outlets these days is what I consider a sign of the times...final stages of capitalism have arrived and they sure as hell ain't gonna tell us about that!

I wrote to them daily and things got worse, not better. I finally turned them off. It was all I had left to do and I haven't watched them for nine months now.

At least the networks acknowledge my mail, usually commenting on whatever my topic was. I write to the nighttime crew at CNN whenever they allow international coverage to break in and show real stuff. Middle of the night is the ONLY time anything manages to be shown, uncensored, and then by 4 or 5 AM, it all magically disappears, never to be heard again.

they get to define it too.

Now, "Fair and Balanced" = "Psychotic Bullshit".