Posted on 12/10/2018 5:50:40 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Truepundit.com is reporting this story:
Full headline: Fox News goes full MSM; informs top reporters to cease & desist investigations of FBI and Obama- era corruption
Fox News in recent days told its top reporters to cease and desist working on any investigative stories that expose FBI corruption and probes of wrongdoing during the Barack Obama administration.
“This place has gone downhill fast,” a well-placed Fox insider said. “Basically we all have been told all Fox wants is to cover breaking news and have pundits talk about breaking news live from news published by other outlets.
So the format Fox wants for the future is network personalities talking about the news other people break, not Fox.”
That format does not include investigative or enterprising journalism, another Fox source confirmed. “Fox quit, threw in the towel,” the second source said. “The Murdochs don’t want to make any waves during their bid to purchase Sky News and this is the direction Fox is going. No original investigative pieces.”
What happens if reporters pursue government corruption stories anyway? “They won’t see the light of day,” one source said. “Fox is withholding many stories now.” Fox reporters are updating their resumes and looking for new jobs.
Just weeks ago, shocking allegations emerged from FOX News as officials probe a top executive who has reportedly allowed his anti-Trump politics to prevent the network from publishing breaking political and national security stories that would reflect positively on President Trump and his administration.
Now the network brass have embraced that ridiculous and biased mantra.
FOX News’ Vice President of News & its D.C. bureau Managing Editor is under investigation for killing stories detailing FBI corruption as well as national security exposés uncovering corruption during the Barack Obama administration, according to well-placed sources inside the network.
Bill Sammon runs FOX’s behemoth D.C. bureau operation and is the Vice President of news at FOX. Sammon has come under fire after distraught employees complained that he has interjected his personal politics into FOX’s news content, dictating what stories could be published by the network and on FOX’s website.
No, this is not CNN. This is “fair and balanced” FOX News. One official said a formal complaints have been filed against the top editor and executive.
Sammon is the boss of a number of staff and writers in FOX’s powerhouse D.C. bureau, just a stone’s throw from the Capitol. His understudies include Catherine Herridge, FOX’s top national security reporter. Herridge did not return requests for comment to this story.
“Sammon is a never-Trumper” one FOX official said. “He hates Trump’s guts and has spiked just about every story that could make Trump look good. That includes FBI corruption because it vindicates the president for firing (James) Comey and hammering (Andrew) McCabe.”
In the news business when an editor or publisher deliberately tables or hides a story it is referred to as “spiking” a story. Sammon, according to network insiders, has spiked dozens of top-level stories and prevented FOX reporters from publishing exclusives. Now the top brass at FOX are examining a number of similar allegations.
What stories have been reportedly sand bagged and tampered with? According to FOX insiders, the stories and subject matter are sweeping and include:
•An Eric Schneiderman story linking the now-disgraced former New York attorney general to a clandestine movement of government officials to unseat Trump from the White House.
•FBI-related scandals involving Andrew McCabe, James Comey and more FBI top brass.
•The FBI’s investigation of Gen. Mike Flynn
•Justice Department and FBI corruption linked to the bogus Trump dossier and problematic FISA court warrants and wiretaps.
•Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch infamous tarmac meeting.
•The Susan Rice unmasking story which included other implicated members of the Obama administration. Those additional administration officials were never identified by FOX although stories detailing their involvement were completed.
•New revelations about former Attorney General Eric Holder’s criminal role in the Fast & Furious gun-running scandal.
•New revelations about Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s role in the tainted Benghazi debacle.
•Additional stories.
“Sammon is compromised,” one FOX official said, calling him a political activist.
One FOX insider said Sammon even added material to stories that was not fact based or from a reporter’s research and sources.
“We were wrong on a big big story because Sammon insisted on adding unsolicited material to stories,” he said. “He put his own shit into a big story. You don’t do this kind of thing.”
Shockingly, stories from FOX reporters on FBI corruption and Obama-linked scandals were held for months until other news agencies broke the same stories, FOX sources revealed. Then, sources said, Sammon would release FOX’s stories.
It was Sammon in fact who wrote the debate questions for the infamous FOX News 2016 presidential debates. Yes, that included the debate where Megyn Kelly attacked Donald Trump.
Later it was revealed Sammon’s daughter served as a top official in the Marco Rubio campaign during the two nationally-televised FOX debates. Even Trump officials lamented Rubio likely had an unfair advantage during those debates.
Before Rubio, Sammon’s daughter previously worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012. Romney is no fan of Trump.
FOX’s Sammon did not return a request for comment. Sammon, who has previously written numerous glowing books on the George W. Bush presidency, remains good friends with the Bush family, sources said.
The Bush family is no fan of Trump.
Sammon became Washington managing editor in February 2009. One veteran described FOX News’ D.C operation today, under Sammon’s leadership, in simplistic terms. “It’s a f*cking mess,” the FOX veteran said. “Total mess.”
This story is developing.
As a side note, this sounds like the type of story self-appointed media CZAR Howard Kurtz should be reporting about.
Whoops, we forgot. Kurtz works for FOX too.
Wonder where Hannity is going to go.
Someone is blackmailing heavily.
USA MainstreetMedia is occupied territory.
I suspected the FBI could be corrupt all the way back to the JFK - Johnson years. But I never even dreamt it was as partisan and ideologically un-American as it has turned out to be. Close the FBI and start a new one based on the Bill of Rights.
Sort of reminds me of the John Anderson heyday a few decades ago.
Anderson had periodic investigative reporting segments in the regular news program of a major network. He was good and had some interesting hard-hitting and breaking stories.
Then, he got his own program on the network and the program went down-hill fast. It was a lot different having to appeal to both network execs AND advertisers. The investigative reports soon became glossed-over news reports and shallow commentary one could find on regular news venues.
FoxNews is in a position of trying to keep its #1 status and it seems to want to do that by appealing to the lowest common denominator of news/commentary.
Hogwash! Relatively speaking, Fox has been far and away “on our side” over the MSM. They still have peeps that are. Do you find A-N-Y on the other stations? Of course not. Whether those peeps will now or have been re-directed to fall in line remains to be seen. So your broad brush is full of crap!
Hannity has changed a lot recently. Almost every comment that he makes is prefaced by how “fair” he is and how he would be the first to “defend” a leftist from harm because he doesn’t want to see anyone hurt. Blah, blah and etc.
He wants American medical treatment for the sick trying to crash the border. He tries too hard to be fair and balanced and it doesn’t play well at all.
I honestly don’t care where he goes he is one of the most annoying people on the radio.
Article at the link is from July 2018.
Now you're down Lou Dobbs. And it sounds like Fox News will put a muzzle on him soon too.
Time to give it up completely.
I forced the issue by canceling DirecTV about two years ago when Trump won the GOP nomination. I was a rabid fan of watching Fox for the "news".
It was then I realized that it was almost all anti-Trump, either directly or indirectly. Why keep watching when they were bashing my president all of the time?
It just dawned on me one day that I was not watching the "news". I was watching what THEY wanted me to see and hear.
You'd be surprised at how quickly I moved on and didn't miss the "news".
Now I save myself a ton of money every month by live-streaming TV from the internet. Netflix, Hulu, Sling, etc.
I was like a drug-addict who got clean. Never looked back. Not missed it at all.
Hogwash! Relatively speaking, Fox has been far and away “on our side” over the MSM. They still have peeps that are. Do you find A-N-Y on the other stations? Of course not. Whether those peeps will now or have been re-directed to fall in line remains to be seen. So your broad brush is full of crap!
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The article is from July 2018. It hasn’t shut up Hannity or Lou.
It appears that Fox has been edging towards supporting centralized global tyranny. I suspect that some extremely wealthy individuals around the world are making some big media companies richer...for now.
As for OANN, those who don’t already have it will find instructions for getting it here.
One America News Network
https://www.oann.com/
Read Rupert Murdoch’s book about the foundations and the beginnings of Fox News. He basically stated that they just didn’t suppress all of the conservative views just the majority of it so they were different.... so they could sell advertising. He also stated that the majority of the middle level managers and operational people all came from competitive news organizations that are super liberal. And they just basically killed off less of the conservative viewpoints than their competitors to be different so they could get viewership and sell advertising. Now the old regime at Fox News is gone and it’s snaps right into being a liberal news Outlet like it always has been . You’re a kook, if you think that they represent the conservative view in America today. Pretty sad you have to rely on some TV station out of New York City to be educated get your news... explains alot
people are so gullible these days. there are about 5 major problems with this story, the biggest of which is that it’s almost certainly bullsh*t.
Guess this explains Tucker Carlson’s sudden anti Trump slant
Best “news” (aside from what Catherine Herridge is allowed to report) comes from Sara Carter and John Solomon’s appearances on “Hannity.” Sammon has no control over Sean’s program (or its content), and that’s why their bombshell reports air on his show. Sara is a contributor at Fox News, but it’s apparently an exclusive deal with Sean’s program and Solomon is a columnist for The Hill (and former AP bureau chief) who receives no compensation from FNC.
“people are so gullible these days. there are about 5 major problems with this story, the biggest of which is that it’s almost certainly bullsh*t.” Oh you’re soo right! Why Shemp Smith Chris Wallace and Juan Williams are the epitome of conservative reporting! Gee why don’t the rest of us see this?
All the bright eyed C and CNN bimbos will mouth the talking points as if the thoughts are fresh out of their little pea brains. Then the next Bimbo will say them almost word for word with wide eyes and furrowed brows as if the ideas just came to her.
All you have to do then is switch to FOX and see if you hear the same stuff.
All the bright eyed MSNBC and CNN bimbos will mouth the talking points as if the thoughts are fresh out of their little pea brains. Then the next Bimbo will say them almost word for word with wide eyes and furrowed brows as if the ideas just came to her.
All you have to do then is switch to FOX and see if you hear the same stuff.
another problem with this story is the date
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