Posted on 04/03/2019 6:34:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are demanding to know why Fox News did not publish a story prior to the 2016 election about an alleged affair years before between porn star Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump.
House Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote to former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone last month demanding that she turn over any documents relating to Trump’s alleged extramarital affairs.
An article in the New Yorker last month alleged that Fox News executive Ken LaCorte spiked the story to protect Trump — a claim LaCorte has vehemently denied, saying the story lacked corroborating evidence and that the network was merely practicing responsible journalism, as were other outlets who declined the story.
That article seems to have motivated Cummings’s letter — a letter that not only seeks personal dirt on the president, but seeks information that might be used to review Fox News’ editorial decisions. The committee’s letter suggests that Fox News may have violated campaign finance rules if it tried to help Trump by suppressing the Daniels story.
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Freedom of speech includes freedom not to speak.
This is attempted tyranny, plain and simple.
There needs to be oversight over giant monopolies like Twitter, Google and Facebook, not the competitive TV news.
Banana Democracy. Embarrassingly stupid people with way too much power and very small brains.
This is a two way street. Let’s also find out why all of Obama’s (and other democrats’) scandals went unreported by all of the other networks for the last, say, forever.
Shoot them.
Maybe Fox will change its name to Pravda as a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC.
They had better remember the old adage:
What goes around, comes around.
Today it’s FOX.
Tomorrow it’s ABCNNBCBSNYTWAPOLAT..................
The fascists already control most of the media. They are well on the way to controlling Fox news as well. They are mad that they don’t control it completely.
Fascists always seize control of the media. Democrats are fascists.
I thought the New York Times was the paper of record - where all news stories originate. Why didn’t they run any story about it? I don’t see Elijah Cummings investigating the New York Times.
COMMUNISTS always seize control of the media. Democrats are COMMUNISTS.....................
Cummings is a dolt AND has ZERO interest in anything except power in Washington DC.
BTW, FAUX should tell simply say NO. They have a staff of lawyers looking for something to do.
Dim Bulb Elijah Cummings had better be careful. Opening up the “Spiked Story” narrative will pull back the curtain on a host of Democrat politicians that have had a multitude of spiked news stories.
How about the rest of the MSM never digging into Obama’s life and Crimes
AND YOU NEVER WILL...................
Just like the old Kremlin days, eh?
Scary. If the Dems take complete control expect much worse than this.
There needs to be oversight of the DemocRAT Party.
Why Elijah! I have a great idea you will think is brilliant!
We can simply assign a Political Officer to every office of news dissemination, printing, broadcasting, radio, and internet!
They, of course, will all be armed with the Tokarev 33 pistol, and will shoot on-the-spot any individual who deviates from the Official State News position.
This worked WONDERFULLY for the Soviet Union. It should be a SMASH HIT here.
The Kremlin already knew the news before it was printed...................
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