School is Suing Fox News for Reporting Parody Story as Real News

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School is Suing Fox News for Reporting Parody Story as Real News

Posted Jul 3rd 2007 10:04PM by Jeff Hoard
Filed under: Media, Video, Documentary

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. Fox News doesn't appear to have much of a "Fact Checking" department and in April they got caught reporting an entire story incorrectly. Check out the video below. Steve Doocy assures the audience that he checked up on several sources and this was not a joke.

Quote: Boston.com

LEWISTON, Maine --A school administrator who says he was ridiculed and harassed based on a bogus news story is suing.

Lewiston School Superintendent Leon Levesque is seeking $75,000 in federal court in Portland to deter what his attorney Bernard J. Kubetz characterized as irresponsible reporting by Fox News Channel.

I am honestly not sure how this will turn out, Fox News actually won a previous case indicating that they were in fact allowed to distort the news. I heard about that thanks to this clip from the documentary "The Corporation."

Learn more about Jane Akre and Steve Wilson.

..and Yes, this stuff is still in the milk of Americans, it is banned in Japan, Canada, the entire European Union, Australia and New Zealand.

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1. "I looked this story up on a couple of websites and local newspaper" Doesn't sound too credible to me. You can see the money cha-ching in fox news reporters everytime you watch it.

Ham is not a toy, but this story is really cheesy. The "turkies" are probably the only people who beleive this crap.

I hope Leon Levesque wins his case but I'm sure 75,000 dollars is nothing to fox news and its corpoerate elitist backing them up. You can get away with murder in this country if you have "expensive lawyers" on your side.

But I'm nothing more than a wacko liberal to fox news anways, nice job Jeff, you have a real battle ahead taking down fox news.

seanpdizzle at 3:02AM on Jul 4th 2007

2. Pardon this humorous pun, but what one eats in America is a matter of "taste". It has never be necessary to pass a law granting "freedom of food". We do not live in a Theocracy. At the very least, chosing to eat a ham sandwich is the "free practice" of religion. Ones choice of food should never be limited by the religious persuaion of another in the United State of America. We do not have a "religion" of the State, thank goodness.

Ben Godfrey at 5:36AM on Jul 4th 2007

3. Hey Jeff - I've been bringing up the previous court order Fox obtained allowing it to distort the new in comments for the last few years. What I do not understand is that knowing this, how can so many Republican TV zombies sit and be fed the cr*p that comes from Fox News and buy into it as if its the absolute truth. Thank you for taking attacking this evil TV network head on, and maybe, someday, Fox will get hit with a highly publicized court order that they can no longer lie to the American People.

Phil at 11:42AM on Jul 4th 2007

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.