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Monsanto & Cancer Milk: FOX NEWS KILLS STORY & FIRES Reporters.

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    NARRATOR: In a world economy
    where information is filtered
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    by global media corporations,
    keenly attuned to their
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    powerful advertisers,
    who will defend the
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    public's right to know?
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    And what price must be paid to
    preserve our ability to make
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    informed choices?
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    [MUSIC PLAYING]
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    STEVE WILSON: What Fox
    Television told us was that we
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    were just the people to
    be the investigators.
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    JANE AKRE: Do any stories you
    want, ask tough questions, and
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    get answers.
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    So we thought, this is great.
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    This is a dream job.
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    Fantastic.
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    The very first thing they had
    us do was not to research
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    stories but to shoot this
    promo, which was The
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    Investigators.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    [MUSIC PLAYING]
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    -Uncovering the truth, getting
    results, protecting you.
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    JANE AKRE: And they had a film
    crew and a smoke machine, and
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    we were silhouetted.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    -Investigative reporter
    Steve--
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    STEVE WILSON: One of the first
    stories that Jane came up with
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    was the revelation that most
    of the milk in the state of
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    Florida and throughout much of
    the country was adulterated
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    with the effects of bovine
    growth hormone, the artificial
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    hormone that farmers were
    injecting into their cows so
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    that they would produce
    more milk.
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    JANE AKRE: With Monsanto, I
    didn't realize how effectively
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    a corporation could work
    to get something on the
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    marketplace, the levels of
    coordination they had to have.
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    They had to get university
    professors into the fold.
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    They had to get experts
    into the fold.
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    They had to get reporters
    into the fold.
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    They had to get the public
    into the fold.
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    And, of course, the FDA, let's
    not leave them out.
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    They had to get the federal
    regulators convinced that this
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    was a fine and safe product to
    get it onto the marketplace.
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    And they did that.
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    They did that very, very well.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    -It's a great time to be
    a high-producing cow.
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    Posilac One-Step--
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    bovine somatotropin
    by Monsanto.
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    JANE AKRE: The federal
    government basically rubber
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    stamped it before they put
    it on the marketplace.
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    The longest test they did
    for human toxicity was
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    90 days on 30 rats.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    NARRATOR: Posilac is the single
    most tested new product
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    in history and is now available
    to you specifically,
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    so you can increase your
    profit potential.
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    JANE AKRE: And then either
    Monsanto misreported the
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    results to the FDA or the FDA
    didn't bother to look in depth
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    at Monsanto's own studies.
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    STEVE WILSON: The scientists
    within Health Canada looked
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    very carefully at bovine growth
    hormone and came to
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    very different conclusions
    than the Food and Drug
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    Administration in the US did.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    -Monsanto's engineered growth
    hormone did not comply with
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    safety requirements.
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    It could be absorbed by the body
    and therefore did have
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    implications for human health.
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    Mysteriously, that conclusion
    was deleted from the final
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    published version
    of their report.
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    STEVE WILSON: They knew
    there were problems.
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    They saw serious potential human
    health problems, and
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    they stood up in Canada and
    said, we're not going to
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    approve this because we don't
    believe it's safe.
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    DR. SHIV CHOPRA: We have been
    pressured and coerced to pass
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    drugs of questionable safety,
    including the rBST.
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    I personally was very concerned
    that there's a very
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    serious problem of secrecy,
    conspiracy, and
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    things of that nature.
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    And something needs
    to be done.
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    JANE AKRE: The FDA was
    then on the hot seat.
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    They had to come up
    with an answer.
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    They didn't come up
    with a good one.
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    And they never took the
    opportunity then--
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    I mean, what would they do?
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    Pull it off the market and say,
    we need to now do the job
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    that we didn't do
    the first time.
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    They didn't do that.
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    STEVE WILSON: We wrote
    the story.
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    We had it ready a
    week beforehand.
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    They had bought ads.
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    [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    -Farmers in the milk industry
    say it's safe.
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    But studies suggest
    a link to cancer.
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    Don't miss this special report
    from The Investigators.
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    [END VIDEO PLAYBACK]
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    STEVE WILSON: That Friday night
    before the Monday the
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    series was to begin, the fax
    machine spit out a letter from
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    this very high-priced lawyer
    in New York that
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    Monsanto had hired.
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    It contained a lot of things
    that we're just off the wall
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    false, just demonstrably
    false.
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    But if you didn't know the story
    and you didn't know how
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    we had gone about producing it,
    it would have scared you
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    as a broadcaster,
    as a manager.
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    JANE AKRE: And they decided that
    they would pull the story
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    and they would just check
    it one more time.
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    STEVE WILSON: But the bottom
    line was that there was no
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    factual errors in the story.
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    Both sides have been
    heard from.
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    Both sides had had an
    opportunity to speak.
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    JANE AKRE: One week
    later, Monsanto
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    sent the second letter.
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    And this was even more
    strongly worded.
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    And it said there will be "dire
    consequences for Fox
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    News" if the story
    airs in Florida.
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    And this time, they freaked.
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    They were afraid of being
    sued, and they were also
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    afraid of losing advertising
    dollars at all of the stations
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    owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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    And he owned more television
    stations than any other group
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    in America.
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    The man has 22 television
    stations.
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    That's a lot of advertising
    dollars for Round-Up,
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    aspartame, NutraSweet
    and other products.
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    STEVE WILSON: So we
    got into a battle.
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    And the first deal was the
    new general manager.
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    JANE AKRE: And his
    name's Dave.
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    And Dave is a salesman.
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    And he'd pump your hand--
    how you doing?
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    How you doing?
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    STEVE WILSON: Called us upstairs
    to his office, and he
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    said, what would you say
    if I killed this piece?
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    What if it never ran?
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    And we said, well, we wouldn't
    be very happy about that.
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    And he said, well I could
    kill it, you know.
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    And we said, yes, of course.
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    You're the manager.
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    You could kill it.
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    It would never air.
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    And he's hemming,
    and he's hawing.
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    And he's back, and he's forth.
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    And we couldn't figure out
    what is this all about?
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    And finally, he blurted out,
    look, would you tell anybody?
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    I said, I'm not going
    to lie for you.
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    About a week later, he calls
    us back to the office and
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    says, OK, we'd like you
    to make these changes.
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    In fact, you will make
    these changes.
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    And we said, well, look, let us
    show you the research that
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    we have that shows that this
    information you want us to
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    broadcast isn't true.
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    To which he replies, I don't
    care about that.
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    And I said, pardon me?
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    And he said, well, that's
    what I have lawyers for.
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    Just write it the way the
    lawyers want it written.
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    I said, you know, this news.
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    This is important.
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    This is stuff people
    need to know.
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    And I'll never forget.
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    He didn't pause a beat, and he
    said, we just paid $3 billion
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    for these television stations.
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    We'll tell you what
    the news is.
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    The news is what we say it is.
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    I said, I'm not doing that.
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    And he said, well, he said, if
    you refuse to present this
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    story the way we think it should
    be presented, you'll be
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    fired for insubordination.
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    I said, I will go to the
    Federal Communications
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    Commission, and I will report
    that I was fired from my job
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    you, the licensee of these
    public airwaves, because I
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    refused to lie to people
    on the air.
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    And it's, thank you very much.
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    You'll hear from
    us right away.
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    Well, 24 hours came and went,
    and we didn't hear a thing.
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    And about a week later,
    he calls us back.
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    And now we've changed
    strategies.
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    How about if we pay you some
    money, and you just go away?
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    And I said, how much money?
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    Because when somebody offers
    to bribe you like that, I
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    always want to know if
    it might be worth it.
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    JANE AKRE: He was going to
    offer us the rest of our
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    year's salary if we agreed not
    to talk about what Monsanto
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    had done, to not talk about the
    Fox corporate response in
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    suppressing the story, and to
    not talk about the story, not
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    talk about BGH again, anywhere,
    not take the story
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    to-- and he said, are
    you going to sign?
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    And we said, nah.
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    Dave, we're not going
    to sign that.
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    And he said, well,
    send it back, OK?
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    We said, nah.
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    Dave, we're not going
    to send that back.
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    STEVE WILSON: It was OK,
    we can't buy you out.
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    We can't shut you up.
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    Let's get the story on the air
    in a way that we can all agree
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    it will go on the air.
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    And we started rewriting and
    editing with their lawyers.
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    JANE AKRE: Well, during this
    8-month re-review process--
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    I say jokingly--
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    they did things like, for
    example, they wanted to take
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    out the word cancer.
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    You don't have to identify what
    the potential problem is.
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    Just say human health
    implications.
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    Any criticism of Monsanto or
    its product, they either
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    removed it or minimized it.
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    And it was very, very clear, I
    would say, almost every edit
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    they made to the piece,
    that was the aim.
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    STEVE WILSON: And we change this
    and this and this, and
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    then that wasn't good enough.
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    OK, now change this
    and this and this.
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    Now change this and this.
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    Version after version
    after version--
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    83 times.
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    JANE AKRE: 83 times
    is unheard of.
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    It doesn't happen.
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    You shouldn't have to rewrite
    something 83 times.
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    Obviously, they didn't want to
    put the thing on the air, and
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    they were trying to drive us
    crazy and get us to quit or
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    wait until the first window in
    our contract so that they
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    could fire us.
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    STEVE WILSON: They, in effect,
    announced that they were going
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    to fire us for no cause.
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    Well, this was a little much.
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    JANE AKRE: And Steve wrote
    a letter to the lawyer in
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    Atlanta, whose name is
    Carolyn Forrest, the
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    Fox corporate lawyer.
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    STEVE WILSON: And I said, you
    know this isn't about being
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    fired for no cause.
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    You're firing us because we
    refused to put on the air
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    something that we knew and
    demonstrated to be false and
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    misleading.
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    That's what this is about--
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    and because we put up a fight,
    because we stood up to this
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    big corporation and we stood
    up to your editors and we
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    stood up your lawyers and we
    said to you, look, there ought
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    to be a principal higher
    than just making money.
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    JANE AKRE: And she wrote
    a letter back and
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    said, you are right.
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    That's exactly what it was.
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    You stood up to us on the story,
    and that's why we're
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    letting you go--
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    big mistake.
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    Big mistake.
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    That says retaliation.
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    You can't retaliate against
    employees if they're standing
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    up for something that they
    believe is illegal that they
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    don't want to participate in.
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    So that gave us the
    whistleblower status that we
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    needed in a state of Florida to
    file a whistleblower claim
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    against our employer.
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    NARRATOR: What Fox neglected
    to report is this.
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    Jane sued Fox under Florida's
    whistleblower statute which
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    protects those who try to
    prevent others from
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    breaking the law.
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    But her appeal court judges
    found that falsifying news
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    isn't actually against
    the law.
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    So they denied Jane her
    whistleblower status,
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    overturned the case, and
    withdrew her $425,000 award.
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    Canada and Europe have upheld
    the ban on rBGH.
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    Yet it remains hidden in much
    of the milk supply of the
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    United States.
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    [MUSIC PLAYING]
Title:
Monsanto & Cancer Milk: FOX NEWS KILLS STORY & FIRES Reporters.
Description:

FOX NEWS Reporters (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre *** See below for more info on their status today) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation's POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as "BGH" "BST" or "rBGH" ), but they were fired for attempting to inform people of the truth.

(Important note: After a long court battle, the Court dismissed the whistle blowers protection for the reporters because the Court stated that there was no law to force that the NEWS state the truth. NEWS was/is no different than other TV shows/reality shows.)

This is type of deceitful corruption is not just FOX news but includes almost all MSM (Main Stream Media).

Self researched, alternative news and information (from multiple sources) is one of the best methods to stay well informed.

Never trust or follow MSM/mega corporations such as Monsanto.

The corrupt FDA has once again turned it's back on the American public and has actually assisted in suppressing the dangers of this issue.

If you consumed or fed regular milk to your family today (8/21/08), there is more than a 90% chance that it was from a cow injected with BGH.

(Bovine somatotropin developed by using recombinant DNA technology).

You could be killing or harming your child every time you pour them a glass of milk, the same as pouring them a glass of slow acting poison.

Please take action to ensure our children's safety, for they can not protect themselves. Remember too, that pus (exudate, infection discharge) is almost always present cow's milk... think about this fact the next time you feed your child this supposedly healthy product.

For great healthy alternative to animal's milk, try Almond, Coconut or Hemp milk (organic).

**** Status of the reports features in this story today (6/20/11): ****
Today, Steve Wilson is Chief Investigative Reporter Action 7 News Detroit were he is making quite a name for himself going after corporate greed/injustice. Many feel he is one of the best reporters in the US today due to the injustice that he experienced. His large following call him the Bulldog. He tirelessly helped to expose Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Search 'Steve Wilson Bulldog'

Jane Akre is the News Editor for the National News Desk of Injuryboard where she is also a great asset.

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Duration:
10:21

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