Spilled milk. The lawsuit the meme refers to involved two married reporters -- Jane Akre and Steve Wilson -- and their former employer, WTVT Channel 13, a Fox affiliate in Tampa, Fla.

If I walked into a high school classroom right this second and asked all the girls what they wanted to be when they grow up, here's what they'd say.

JANE AKRE: Actually, that part was left in, but what we had uncovered was that there was an EPA investigation into the way Monsanto brought PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls into the marketplace.

Like the mythical Pandora's Box of human ills, a lawsuit filed against WTVT-Ch. 13 by two ex-reporters raises a host of troubling questions, including one that strikes at the heart of ...

A Florida jury awards Jane Akre $425,000 after she was fired for refusing to change a story discussing the dangers of a genetically engineered cow hormone created by Monsanto. From the Environment ...

In 2014, Akre told PolitiFact that she didn’t remember WTVT admitting to lying and defending it as a legal right. Our ruling. A Facebook post said Fox News sought the legal “right to tell lies.” ...

The verdict in favor of Jane Akre in September came nearly three years after the station fired her for what it maintains was insubordination. The jury did not award damages to Akre’s husband, ... Akre ...

In a lawsuit filed this week, the husband-and-wife team of Jane Akre and Steve Wilson accuse Tampa’s WTVT-Ch. 13 not only […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 80°F.

Jane Akre won the hefty award in August 2000 by claiming that her employer WTVT-TV fired her after she threatened to tell the FCC that it had tried to distort the news. The Florida whistleblower law ...

Akre claimed Fox fired her in 1998 for threatening to report to the FCC that the management at Fox’s Tampa station, WTVT, was pressuring her to broadcast a factually inaccurate story about the ...

In 1997, TV reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre were famously fired from a Florida Fox affiliate while they worked on a story about the alleged dangers of a Monsanto-manufactured milk additive ...

Jane Akre Share. Tweet. Copy Link. Email Print. Published in July 11, 2005. If any more proof was needed that we live in an upside-down world, the ...