Employee Free Choice Act: Fox Facts vs. actual facts


	Employee Free Choice Act: Fox Facts vs. actual facts

disenchantedcitizen

3-14-2009 12:50 PM

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disenchantedcitizen says:

‘Fair and balanced’ Fox News has unbalanced fair news reporting again.

Seems there may be a job opening for someone to screen out the BS that Fox News passes on as facts.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e5af8ec0-fa04-4600-85cb-4a865ec2d9a1/8B0A9943-E15C-433B-A9BD-D7CE63C3FC8D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011" style="font-size: 11px;">mediamatters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011">In recent days, Fox 
News has run on-screen text -- often billed as "Fox 
Facts" -- falsely claiming that 
the <A title="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1409ih.txt.pdf" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Ffrwebgate.access.gpo.gov%2Fcgi-bin%2Fgetdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills%26docid=f:h1409ih.txt.pdf">Employee 
Free Choice Act</A> (EFCA) would "kill 
workplace secret ballots," "kill workers' right to secret ballot" and "take away 
workers' right to have a secret ballot vote."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011">In fact, the legislation would not 
eliminate employees' right to a secret ballot; as <EM>The New York Times</EM> <A title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F11%2F09%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F09labor.html?_r=3%26oref=slogin%26pagewanted=all" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F11%2F09%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F09labor.html?_r=3%26oref=slogin%26pagewanted=all">reported</A>, "Business groups have attacked 
the legislation because it would take away <EM>employers'</EM> right to insist on holding a 
secret-ballot election to determine whether workers favored unionization"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011"> Indeed, as the <EM>Christian 
Science Monitor </EM>has <A title="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/11/controversial-card-check-bill-back-for-fourth-time/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Ffeatures.csmonitor.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F03%2F11%2Fcontroversial-card-check-bill-back-for-fourth-time%2F" linkindex="12">noted</A>, "[t]he proposed law gives workers 
a choice of forming a union through majority sign-up ('card check') or an 
election by secret ballot."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903120011"><EM>Media 
Matters</EM> has noted that <A title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260003" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260003" linkindex="14">Fox 
News</A> <A title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903100023" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903100023" linkindex="15">hosts</A> and <A title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200901190003" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200901190003" linkindex="16">contributors</A> have <A title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200901310006" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200901310006" linkindex="17">frequently</A> <A title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903100032" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200903100032" linkindex="18">advanced</A> falsehoods about the Employee 
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