House Democrats Want ‘Oversight’ over Fox News’ Editorial Decisions

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The Democrats are doing all they can to kill off the freedom of speech. Fox News is just a shadow of its former self, but if the Democrats succeed in gaining “oversight” over its editorial decisions, that would be the coup de grace. The Democrats want a society in which only their point of view can be heard, and only their editorial line can be followed. In other words, they want the death of a free society.

“House Democrats Want ‘Oversight’ over Fox News’ Editorial Decisions,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, April 2, 2019:

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.

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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.

Falzone has said she will cooperate with the committee, despite an agreement with Fox that prevents her from speaking about the story. In an op-ed at Mediaite, LaCorte says he supports Falzone’s desire to talk about the story publicly, but that he will refuse to cooperate with the committee’s effort to exercise oversight over the free press.

LaCorte writes (original link):

Falzone’s lawyer announced that she would comply with the committee. I won’t.

If House Oversight can launch an investigation based on the ridiculous notion that publishing, or even more bizarrely not publishing, a story can be construed as an in-kind campaign contribution, then no journalist in America is safe from government intimidation. It’s a vast overreach of power, and I won’t have any part of it….

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

what I wonder is why they are not chucking spears at each other in Chicongo, I mean using guns is appropriation of white culture, non?

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

What’s the rush Democrats? Have a bit of patience and Faux will give it all to you. They’re already well underway…

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  MAS

…Judge Jeannine can fill you in on that….as could Ailes if they hadn’t killed him with stress of phony sex scandals…..Bill O’ Reilly…..Eric Bollin….etc….

Salviati
Salviati
4 years ago

Yeah, and Fox should have to change its name to Pravda. That’s the ticket.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
4 years ago

it’s ok, it’s just the final nail in tv “news”. no person with an IQ bigger than their shoe size wastes their time watching “news” on tv. even on fox, it’s all lies. remember bill o’reilly saving the muslim’s presidency by telling us that the muslim’s “father” lived in CT and that’s why the muslim had a SSN of a dead white guy in CT? remember?

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

And an aunt who was an illegal alien from Kenya living in public housing in Boston.

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago

Democrats like socialists everywhere preach the mantra of ” do as we say not as we do “.

Remember some are more “equal” than others, {more moral too} if you believe their cant.

Catch THEM with THEIR trousers down while others on slave “wages” build the security walls ever higher and thicker around their palaces of socialist humbug.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Agreed. Fox News has not even bothered to comment on this story and they are the ones specifically pointed out, so that tells you what level of stupidity to which the Dems have descended.

Give them an inch and they think they are a ruler.

Rlb
Rlb
4 years ago

The media supresses stories favorable to Republicans, Israel, Trump and does so as a matter of policy- every day.

ace wheeler
ace wheeler
4 years ago

Back in your tree Cummings!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

But was Trump’s affair w/Stormy Daniels a crime? Furthermore was their any concrete evidence it happened at the time? Especially considering Trump was a private citizen at the time — unlike say when William Jefferson Clinton had his cigar issue in the Oval Office?

James Jones
James Jones
4 years ago

It would seem you don’t appreciate creativity, besides Billy was just trying to share his cigar. I’m shocked that you would defend free speech, it is after all the worst part of society, after Christians, according to glorious leader Trudeau. Please don’t let this happen again, you worry me that you might be harming your health. The next time you feel compelled to use alternate facts count to ten or something, I’m counting the sheep, sooo many.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

LOL, that was gr8, but what if the cigar in question was a Havana?

James Jones
James Jones
4 years ago

Just a mood Mud, but I thought you would like it. I think when I’m feeling a bit despondent about all these matters, I release the tension with some goofy stuff. I’ve applied to run for office and it’s a bit of a roller coaster – thinking I can offer something and then thinking what am I doing. I will push through with it and do my best for Him, to that I am committed.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

Wise choice. Mark Twain said it best, “There is only one way to look at a politician and that is down.”

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

Good luck, I hope you win! It used to be Havanas and any other productos de Cuba couldn’t be sold in the USA.

Frank
Frank
4 years ago

Why did the ‘press’ suppress the photo of Obama and Farrakhan till after he left office?

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
4 years ago

Of course it’s not a crime Muham (love your handle). It’s between him and his wife and him and his God. Crime? Sleeping with somebody? Only under sharia.

Even the Clinton issue wasn’t criminal in any way, and the Repubs were really stupid to impeach over that. Wrong actually. It paved the way for the ‘no holds barred’ Left these days, tho’ they’d have become that anyway due to the vicious commies coming out of our schools 24/7…

Monica was of age and the Oval Office is sacred but not forbidden to a president’s-umm…uhh…invitees (!?)

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

Or any of his other egregious wrongs against women – he was an elected official at some of those times

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

The democRATS are patterning the House of Representatives after the model of the Russian “State Duma”.

Bkhuna
Bkhuna
4 years ago

Because they are such champions of the first amendment.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

FOX is wobbly at best.
They have control of ABC,CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR etc and still they are not happy.
They want total control.

Janet
Janet
4 years ago

So the ridiculous Democrats want to know why Fox sat on a story? It’s called responsible reporting when you don’t have the facts or can’t collaborate them. CNN, MSNBC and others that have been reporting constant BS about the President in order to destroy him, his family and anyone who was associated with him during his campaign. They are truly despicable and want total control of everything and everyone that doesn’t adhere to their sick agenda.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

retarded :))

Keith
Keith
4 years ago

Does it matter why any news organisation does or does not publish which reports?

WittyWeasel
WittyWeasel
4 years ago

I see no problem . . .quid pro quo . . . give the Democrats ” oversight ” on Fox, and give Republics ” oversight ” on CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NYT, HuffPost, LA Times, SF Chronicle, etc.

Problem solved !

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  WittyWeasel

Agreed. Now they want to paw through Trump’s tax records. OK, release Obhammud’s college transcripts first.

WittyWeasel
WittyWeasel
4 years ago

Not in this life, Drew ! ! The guy was groomed and greased into office . . .his records will be sealed for 50 years. Promise !

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  WittyWeasel

The thing most fearful to the commiecrats is that his school records indicate he enrolled as a foreign student. Remember way back in the 2016 primary season when Trump said Obhammud would eventually be exposed as the biggest hoax ever pulled on this nation?

Now you see the rationale for their working at an amphetamine pace to try and discredit him.

Frank
Frank
4 years ago
Reply to  WittyWeasel

Republicans would do nothing like they always do.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

There is a certain little item forbidden by the Constitution from its outset and well established by judicial precedent called “prior restraint”.

Combine that with the Electoral College and the dictatorial intent that the “Green New Deal” disaster exposes and you begin to see why the commiecrats see fit to trample the Constitution in achieving their goals.

Thr Second Amendment protects all the others.

Be safe, be trained, be alert.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

WTF??

It is Demoncraps that need oversight. Why do these people get it ass backwards like uh, sodomites??

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago

SATAN IS A LIAR AND DECEIVERS and the DemonRats follow Satan.

ANY QUESTIONS?

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
4 years ago

Good to know that there are still honorable men working in the media.

Three cheers for Ken LaCorte!

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago

Can we get the same oversight by Republicans on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

This is hysterically funny. Government (Dimms) demanding control over a news agency?!!

I gave up Fox News during Obama’s reign….they went too far Left for me…but apparently not enough for the Dimms….

Imagine if Jim Jordan got up at the mic and said that Congress needed control over CNN and MSNBC……what an outcry that would be.

No way would you have heard this kind of talk before the 8 years of the Muslim Marxist Obama reign…..

Defence Man
Defence Man
4 years ago

That the political left has even gone so far as to suggest that publishing or not publishing an article could be construed as an illegal political contribution , would be very funny were it not a serious threat to our freedom ! The only saving factor here is that we’re the democrats to bring on such legislation it would be contested up to the Supreme Court where it would be unlikely pass.
One way or the other, you should note that the democrats/the left are acting as if they were a communist government in power ……… EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ! Vote republican, vote TRUMP.

Drifter12
Drifter12
4 years ago

When we see open acknowledged insanity, are we therefore obligated to join in. I don’t think so…The Progressive dim bulbs in Congress do not have Constitutional authority to order any such thing without prima facia evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump… Before he became president, they are completely SOoL… On the main issue here, they have no sway or say so over Fox News, whatsoever…

Ari
Ari
4 years ago

House Democrats want censorship.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago
Reply to  Ari

Those putzes shall never be allowed in position of power.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

so howsabout Repub/Conservative OVERSIGHT of cnn,abc,msnbc the view and all the rest of the liberal news sites –

Todd
Todd
4 years ago

I propose a civilian oversight committee on democrats for the destructive, obstructionist tactics they do everyday that hinders Trump from doing his job.

Lodesman
Lodesman
4 years ago

Freedom of the Press is precious, once lost cannot be reclaimed except by armed conflict. What the lefties mean is that they are not competent enough to counter the the right. Both sides are necessary to reach sane conclusions. What the lefties want is no opposition and no middle road solutions.

Ludlow Porch
Ludlow Porch
4 years ago

“Phuck” what the Democrats want!

created4el
created4el
4 years ago

So the Democrat party is not only going full out against the 2nd Amendment, they are now going full out against the 1st Amendment. Now that they control the House, they must feel emboldened to go full fascist as they are now openly attempting to subvert the 1st and 2nd Amendments. Not to mention, they seem to have no issue violating the other Amendments such as illegal searches and prosecuting (or looking for a crime) without due cause. This should scare everybody who believes in the USA as it is and doesn’t want it converted into a communist “utopia”.

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