Fox News Internal ‘Briefing Book’ Admits Rudy Giuliani Spreads ‘Disinformation’ – By Colin Kalmbacher (Law and Crime) / Feb 6 2020
Fox News is aware that guests and contributors spread “disinformation” on Ukraine, according to an internal “briefing book.” The most high-profile offender? President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. But Fox News claimed the document was being “taken out of context and politicized to damage the network.”
Obtained by Daily Beast, the document is also particularly harsh on former opinion columnist for The Hill, John Solomon—whose reporting for his prior outlet indirectly set the whole impeachment drama in motion—as well as the lawyer husband-wife duo of Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing—essentially casting severe doubts about the veracity of statements made by—and the reliability of—each of those on-air personalities.
Per that report:
The 162-page document, entitled “Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration,” was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network’s Brain Room—a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network’s programming.
The document’s existence was first made public by three-year Fox News veteran and former freelance producer Marcus DiPaola, who says he left the network under suspicious circumstances—after providing information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation—in January of last year:
https://twitter.com/marcusdipaola/status/1225433935183843335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1225433935183843335&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flawandcrime.com%2Fhigh-profile%2Ffox-news-internal-memo-admits-rudy-giuliani-spreads-disinformation%2F
According to Murphy, Giuliani regularly exhibits a “high susceptibility to disinformation” initially provided by disgraced Ukrainian sources like corruption-plagued former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko and billionaire Dmytro Firtash. The latter is under indictment in the U.S. for bribery, but hasn’t been extradited here. The intrigue on that front is worth learning more about.
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