[news] Fired reporters challenge Fox TV license

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"For what is believed to be the first time ever, two television journalists have challenged the broadcast license of a station on grounds it deliberately broadcast false and distorted news reports. Veteran reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson filed the petition Monday against WTVT Fox-13, in Tampa, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television empire. The formal Petition To Deny the station's pending license renewal presents the Federal Communications Commission with 98 pages of what the journalists say is 'clear and convincing support for the claim that the licensee is not operating in the public interest and lacks the good character to do so.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/203911/241