Discussion: Report: Fox News Had Stormy Daniels Story Before Election, Killed It To Protect Trump

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Seems like they didn’t want us deciding, then.

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That’s correct, no crime. News organizations have a protected freedom to publish, but no requirement to publish anything in particular. Fox News has the right to be a true enemy of the people, and damned if it’s not doing its best.

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You beat me to it.

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Popehat says it’s proof that Fox News did the RICO.

I am equally NAL… it seems like a sufficiently dogged prosecutor could creatively wrap this conduct in some sort of in-kind campaign finance violation, but I can’t imagine they could secure a conviction.

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It could be considered a campaign contribution since it is presenting Trump with a thing of value. So. Did Trump know of and approve of this largesse?

ETA I’m NAL either, but my breakfast did contain a lot of refined sugar.

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Remember: There was a big risk that Hillary Clinton could have been elected President. Pedo pizza dundeons on every corner. Fox had to do something.

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Further evidence that the management of FOX News has been using the cable network as a pro-Trump PAC.

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And:

Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao who is now happens to be Trump’s Transportation Secretary was an active member of the Fox Baoard of Directors and was part of the project to catch & kill factual based stories on Trump.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao…why did you help Fox catch & kill the story on Stormy Daniels? Why didn’t Mitch McConnell report this to the FBI?

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What is unbelievable is the rest of the media treating Fox as a legitimate news agency.

Going to work for Fox should be regarded in the business as a career-ending move.

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Remember when the NYT sat on their story about massive, illegal NSA surveillance of the American public because running it close to the 2004 elections wouldn’t have been fair to Bush? I do. They do, too. Herb Keller admitted it. The “liberal” media is not liberal. It is statist. Fox followed the playbook.

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That’s the question—to what extent did the campaign know of the contribution in the first place—but it’s still pretty thin. Can the government force publications to publish things they don’t want to publish? I’d hate to have to argue that in court. I’ve never heard of it happening ever.

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Fox: News or entertainment? So hard to keep it straight.

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Fox News: " We dissemble. You disbelieve"

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This makes Shep Smith’s one-paragraph on-air debunking of the Uranium One “scandal” all the more impressive. Not that anyone that watches that network paid attention, of course.

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The NYT killed the story of illegal NSA wiretapping before the 2004 election, at the request of the Bush administration.

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We Deceive. You Believe.

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It’s interesting to me that Fox News killed the story yet the WSJ, another Murdoch operation, ran with it well after the election.

Is that just a function of Murdoch being able to have more of a thumb on the scale (to put it lightly) at Fox News than at the WSJ?

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Can’t wait to see your reaction when you find out how the NY Times acted about a little thing called WMDs before our Iraqi Expedition, in the ancient time of 2003.

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This is an in-kind campaign contribution and should be investigated as such.

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Fear of the English language is a common trait among the MW.

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