Fw: [foxBGHsuit] VICTORY IN TAMPA!

[Tom Wheeler]

>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 we finish the last of this
>champagne!