Posted 9:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

More Reasons To Stick It to Fox News
I didn't hear about this court case until an alert reader let me know about it:

In 1998, [two former Fox News affiliate reporters] filed a civil court lawsuit seeking employee protections under the state Whistleblower Act that resulted in a $425,000 jury award to Akre [one of the reporters]. That verdict was overturned in 2003 when an appellate court accepted Fox's defense that since it is not technically against any law, rule or regulation for a broadcaster to distort the news, the journalists were never entitled to employee protections as whistleblowers in the first place.

Also, read this Roger Ailes interview that is dripping in condescension:

we've changed the business a little bit. I mean, I can't speak to why they hate me. I don't know -- you know, hate is something that you have to get over in your life, and some people haven't gotten over it. I can't think of anybody I hate, but -- I think Fox News has come on the scene and identified itself as "fair and balanced." We try to do that every day. I think others, instead of trying to get more fair and balanced, probably are offended by that or worried about it.