Set $oFCKeditor->Value with Variable in PHP

Hey Guys,
Im trying to set the value of FCKeditor to the result of a database query ...or basically a variable:

<?php
$content = latestNews(false,true);
$content = stripslashes($content);
$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('FCKeditor') ;
$oFCKeditor->BasePath = 'FCKeditor/';
$oFCKeditor->Value = latestNews(false,true);
$oFCKeditor->Create() ;

?>

latestNews is a fucntion from earler in my code. What basically happens is that the returned value from the database query gets displayed above and outside of the editor.

Can anyone suggest a better method?