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the public into the fold

and of course the FDA

lets not leave them out.

They had to get the federal

regulators convinced

that this was

a fine and safe product

to get it onto the

marketplace.

And they did that;

they did that

very very well.

Posilac is a single most

tested product in history

and is now available

to you specifically.

So you can increase

your profit potential.

The federal government

basically rubber stamped it

before they put it

on the marketplace.

The longest test they

did for human toxicity

was 90 days on thirty rats.

And then either Monsanto

misreported the results

to the FDA

or the FDA didn't bother

to look in depth

at Monsanto's own studies.

The scientists within Health

Canada looked very carefully

at bovine growth hormone

and came to very

different conclusions

than the Food and Drug

Administration in the U.S. Did

Monsanto's engineered

growth hormone did not comply

with safety requirements.

It could be absorbed

by the body

and therefore did have

implications for human health.

Mysteriously that

conclusion was deleted

from the final published

version of their report...

I personally

was very concerned

that there's a very serious

problem of secrecy

conspiracy and things

of that nature.

We have been pressured

and coerced

to pass drugs of

questionable safety

including RB ST.

We wrote the story.

We had it ready a

week beforehand.

They bought ads

...farmers in the milk

industry say it's safe

but studies suggest

a link to cancer.

Don't miss this special report

from The Investigators...

That Friday night before the

Monday the series was to begin

the fax machine

spit out a letter

from this very high priced

lawyer in New York

that Monsanto had hired.

It contained a lot of

things that were just

off-the-wall false

Just demonstrably false

but if you didn't

know the story

and you didn't know how

wed gone about producing

it would have scared

you as a broadcaster

or as a manager.

And they decided that they

would pull the story

and they would just check

it one more time.

But the bottom line was that

there was no factual errors

in that story.

Both sides had been

heard from

both sides had had an

opportunity to speak.

One week later

Monsanto sent

the second letter

and this was even

more strongly worded.

And it said there will be dire

consequences for Fox News

if the story airs

in Florida.

And this time

they freaked.

They were afraid

of being sued

and losing

advertising dollars.

And all of the stations

owned by Rupert Murdoch.

And he owned more television

stations than any

other group in America.

That's 22

television stations.

That's a lot of

advertising dollars.

For Round Up Aspartame

Nutra Sweet

and other products.

So we got into

a battle.

And uh the first deal was

the new general manager

his name's Dave and

Dave is a salesman.

And you know

he'd pump your hand

how ya doin

how ya doin?

Called us upstairs to

his office and he said

what would you say if

I killed this piece?

What if it never ran?

And we said

well you know

we wouldn't be very

happy about that.

And he said well I

could kill it you know

and we said yes of

course you're the manager

you could kill it

it would never air.

And he hemming

and he showing.

He's back

and he's forth.

And we couldn't figure out

what is this all about

and finally

he blurted out

look would

you tell anybody?

You know I said I'm

not going to lie for you.

And about a week later he

calls us back to the office

and says okay wed like you

to make these changes.

In fact you will

make these changes.

We said well look let us

show you the research

that we have that

shows that this information

you want us to

broadcast isn't true.

To which he replies.

I don't care about that.

I said pardon me?

And he said well that's

what I have lawyers for

just write it the way the

lawyers want it written.

I said you know

this is news

this is important.

This is stuff

people wanted to know.

And I'll never forget he

didn't pause a beat

and he said

we just paid three

billion dollars

for these

television stations

Well tell you what

the news is.

The news is what

we say it is.

I said I'm not

doing that.

And and he said

Well he said if you refuse

to present this story

the way we think it

should be presented

you'll be fired

for insubordination.

I said I will go to the Federal

Communications Commissions

and I will report that

I was fired from my job by you

the licensee of these

public airwaves

because I refused to lie

to people on the air.

And it's thank you very much

you'll hear from us right away.

Well 24 hours came and went

and we didn't hear a thing.

And about a week later

he calls us back

and now we've

changed strategies.

How about if we

pay you some money

and you just go away?

And I said

how much money?

Because when somebody

offers to bribe you like that

I always want to know if

it might be worth it.

He was going to offer us the

rest of our years salary

if we agreed not to talk about

what Monsanto had done

To not talk about the Fox

corporate response

in suppressing the story.

And to not talk

about the story.

Not talk about BGH

again anywhere.

Not take this story to

another new organization.

Zip up.

I said you mean if I want to go

to my daughter's PTA meetings

and explain what's

in the school milk

at the school lunch

program I cant?

No you can never speak

about this anywhere.

Steve says

okay write it up.

And I'm like what are you

talking about write it up?

And I didn't say anything.

And Dave he wrote it

up and he FedEx it to us

a couple of days later.

And he said

are you going to sign?

And we said nah Dave

we're not going to sign that.

And he said well

send it back okay?

We said no Dave were

not going to send that back.

It was okay we

cant buy you out

we cant shut you up

lets get the story on the air

in a way that we can all agree

it will go on the air.

And we started rewriting and

editing with their lawyers.

During this eight month

re-review process

I say jokingly they did things

like for example they wanted

to take out

the word cancer.

You don't have to identify

what the potential problem is

just say human

health implications.

Any criticism

of Monsanto or its product

they either removed

it or minimized it.

And it was very very

clear I would say

almost every edit

they made to the piece

that was the aim.

And we changed this

and this and this.

And then that

wasn't good enough

okay now change

this and this.

Now change this and this.

Version after version

after version.

83 times.

83 times is unheard

of it doesn't happen

you shouldn't have to

rewrite something 83 times

Obviously they didn't want

to put the thing on the air

and they were trying to drive us

crazy and get us to quit

or wait until the first

window in our contract

so that they

could fire us.

They in effect announced that

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