i've posted two items about this recently and this might be something of a 'roundup' of those posts covering a fox tv reporter who spoke out about how the tv station controls what info you're given by preventing information being presented based on internal prejudices;
On Monday, Houston television reporter Ivory Hecker made national news when she told viewers on air that KRIV, her Fox outlet, was “muzzling me to keep certain information from you,” and that she’d been working with undercover journalistic outlet Project Veritas to record censorship at the station.
(Article by C. Douglas Golden republished from WesternJournal.com)
On Tuesday, Project Veritas aired the first clips Hecker recorded along with a sit-down interview with the now-fired Hecker about her time at the station.
The clips revealed a cult-like environment in which higher-ups and government ad dollars can dictate content. A photographer says the station hires producers straight out of college because “[t]hey just regurgitate what they are fed.” Reporting on hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 was nixed. A sales coordinator says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “are in the pocket” of the station because they spend so much ad money.
Perhaps most of all, the video can be seen as a vindication for former President Donald Trump, who frequently complained about media bias, particularly as it informed coverage of COVID-19.
“From the inside, yes, there’s a narrative,” Hecker said in the interview. “It is unspoken. But if you accidentally step outside the narrative, if you don’t sense what that narrative is and go with it, there will be grave consequences for you.”
Hecker was initially suspended after the video went public. On Tuesday, she told The Daily Beast she’d been fired...........read and watch more.......
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