June 21st, 2007
Determination 150: Tax Rally Attendees v. WCCO-TV
In April 2007, twelve participants in a tax-cut rally held at the State Capitol in St. Paul filed complaints against WCCO-TV. Footage of their rally had been edited into a feature on WCCO’s Web site entitled “Raw Video: Global Warming Protest on Capitol Hill.” Though the caption that accompanied the video read, “Hundreds of activists gathered on Capitol Hill Saturday to urge Congress to enact an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050,” about half of the footage was of the much larger local tax-cut rally.