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The Fox News Presidency

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“Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

When Shine assumed command at Fox, the 2016 campaign was nearing its end, and Trump and Clinton were all but tied. That fall, a FoxNews.com reporter had a story that put the network’s journalistic integrity to the test. Diana Falzone, who often covered the entertainment industry, had obtained proof that Trump had engaged in a sexual relationship in 2006 with a pornographic film actress calling herself Stormy Daniels. Falzone had worked on the story since March, and by October she had confirmed it with Daniels through her manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, and with Daniels’s former husband, Mike Moz, who described multiple calls from Trump. Falzone had also amassed e-mails between Daniels’s attorney and Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, detailing a proposed cash settlement, accompanied by a nondisclosure agreement. Falzone had even seen the contract.

But Falzone’s story didn’t run—it kept being passed off from one editor to the next. After getting one noncommittal answer after another from her editors, Falzone at last heard from LaCorte, who was then the head of FoxNews.com. Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.” LaCorte denies telling Falzone this, but one of Falzone’s colleagues confirms having heard her account at the time.

Despite the discouragement, Falzone kept investigating, and discovered that the National Enquirer, in partnership with Trump, had made a “catch and kill” deal with Daniels—buying the exclusive rights to her story in order to bury it. Falzone pitched this story to Fox, too, but it went nowhere. News of Trump’s payoffs to silence Daniels, and Cohen’s criminal attempts to conceal them as legal fees, remained unknown to the public until the Wall Street Journal broke the story, a year after Trump became President.

In January, 2017, Fox demoted Falzone without explanation. That May, she sued the network. Her attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, declined to comment but acknowledged that a settlement has been reached; it includes a nondisclosure agreement that bars Falzone from talking about her work at Fox.

After the Journal story broke, Oliver Darcy, a senior media reporter for CNN, published a piece revealing that Fox had killed a Stormy Daniels story. LaCorte, who by then had left Fox but was still being paid by the company, told Mediaite that he’d made the call without talking to superiors. The story simply hadn’t “passed muster,” he claimed, adding, “I didn’t do it to protect Donald Trump.” Nik Richie, a blogger who had broken the first story about Daniels, tweeted, “This is complete ********. Ken you are such a LIAR. This story got killed by @FoxNews at the highest level. I know, because I was one of your sources.”

Richie told me, “Fox News was culpable. I voted for Trump, and I like Fox, but they did their own ‘catch and kill’ on the story to protect him.” He said that he’d worked closely with Falzone on the article, and that “she did her homework—she had it.” He says he warned her that Fox would never run it, but “when they killed it she was devastated.” Richie believes that the story “would have swayed the election.”
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They truly decided to become state TV.
 
But the real story is supposedly the liberal media.
 
"Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

Rupert Murdoch did the same thing in Australia and caused a leadership spill in the Liberal (Conservative) Party, in late 2018.

I'm guessing that, as Murdoch lost the bid to buy "Sky TV" to Comcast, that he is having a tantrum and interfering in politics, where he can.

Turnbull was warned Rupert Murdoch was trying to remove him as prime minister
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...pert-murdoch-trying-remove-him-prime-minister
 
Matthew Ellard said:
"Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

Rupert Murdoch did the same thing in Australia and caused a leadership spill in the Liberal (Conservative) Party, in late 2018.

I'm guessing that, as Murdoch lost the bid to buy "Sky TV" to Comcast, that he is having a tantrum and interfering in politics, where he can.

Turnbull was warned Rupert Murdoch was trying to remove him as prime minister
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...pert-murdoch-trying-remove-him-prime-minister
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Rupert has been interfering like this in Australian politics for decades, in both TV and print media. He is well-known for it, and it has been blatant and unrepentant. So this business of him interfering in US politics in pretty much the same way is old hat for us Aussie observers. It sort of comes under the heading: "We told you so, but did you listen?"
 
Norman Alexander said:
Rupert has been interfering like this in Australian politics for decades, in both TV and print media. He is well-known for it, and it has been blatant and unrepentant. So this business of him interfering in US politics in pretty much the same way is old hat for us Aussie observers. It sort of comes under the heading: "We told you so, but did you listen?"
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To observant Americans, also. Murdoch has basically written the editorial policy for Fox News. Not the specifics they cover, but their slant on all stories. Contrary to popular myth he did not convert the NY Post to his way of thinking, but bought them because he wouldn't have to. The NY Post was a reactionary rag throughout the 60s and 70s (when he bought it). He's been trying to manipulate political outcomes wherever he can for more than four decades.
 
The day Rupert dies, I will be out dancing in the streets for joy, singing "Ding Dong The Rich Is Dead" at the top of my voice.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Rupert has been interfering like this in Australian politics for decades, in both TV and print media. He is well-known for it, and it has been blatant and unrepentant. So this business of him interfering in US politics in pretty much the same way is old hat for us Aussie observers. It sort of comes under the heading: "We told you so, but did you listen?"
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He has interfered in British Politics even more. He, in a rare moment of honestly, said he strongly supported Britex because he felt a British government on it's own would be easier to push around then as member of the EU.
 
dudalb said:
He has interfered in British Politics even more. He, in a rare moment of honestly, said he strongly supported Britex because he felt a British government on it's own would be easier to push around then as member of the EU.
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Yes, he's had the ear of UK governments for some time now, Labour as well as Tory. I think he basically said that the EU more or less ignore him. Which is a good thing imo - Murdoch really is a force of evil in the world.
 
Dragon said:
Yes, he's had the ear of UK governments for some time now, Labour as well as Tory. I think he basically said that the EU more or less ignore him. Which is a good thing imo - Murdoch really is a force of evil in the world.
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Anthony Hilton in the Evening Standard once wrote:

I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. 'That’s easy,' he replied. 'When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.'
 
3point14 said:
Anthony Hilton in the Evening Standard once wrote:

I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. 'That’s easy,' he replied. 'When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.'
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That’s the quote I half-remembered, thanks.
 
Anthony Hilton in the Evening Standard once wrote:

I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. 'That’s easy,' he replied. 'When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.'
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Tory Brexiteers have a similar take : "In Brussels, when I say I went to Eton they take no notice ..."
 
I'm suddenly reminded of a Frank Burns quote from MASH.
"We're here with the UN which I personally have nothing against, except that it's full of foreigners. Of course, it's what did in your League of Nations."
 
In something that should come as no surprise, The New Yorker hit piece is fake news designed to pander to the leftist mob.

The author deliberately avoided talking to editor in question. that editor has released an incendiary condemnation of journalistic malpractice:

"Two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, as the editorial head of Fox News online, I reviewed a draft news story that said porn actress Stormy Daniels had confirmed having an affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier. The only problem was … Stormy hadn’t said that.

Daniels and her associates were playing a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with Fox News and other outlets, trying to get their story out without fingerprints and, ultimately, without enough proof to publish."

fox was not the only ones not to publish, Slate, Good Morning America, Daily Beast also chose not to.

Journalistic grifters, get angry that you got duped
 
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