[asia-apec 1522] Victory in FOX BGH Suit

[Anuradha Mittal]

This just in...

A Tampa jury late this afternoon returned a verdict in favor of 
investigative reporter Jane Akre.  The six-member panel has awarded 
her $450,000 in damages, concluding she was fired from her job at
WTVT in Tampa for threatening to report to the Federal Communications 
Commission that the station wanted her to broadcast a false and 
misleading news report about Monsanto's synthethic bovine growth hormone 
(rBGH).

The same jury decided Steve Wilson's resistence to distorting the
news and his threat to report Fox's misconduct to the FCC was not 
"the" reason the station chose not to renew his contract. 

More details will be posted right after they finish the last of the 
champagne!

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