The “fake news” banner is starting to crisscross the political divide as for the third time in roughly 5 weeks FOX News is linked to false reporting/false statements in their coverage.
But have no fear, their ratings will go up as people cry vast left wing conspiracy – PB/TK
Lawsuit Says Sean Spicer Reviewed A Fox News Report On A Fake Conspiracy Theory Before It Was Published – By Cora Lewis / Aug 1 2017
The private detective who ignited a false conspiracy theory about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer sued Fox News and others on Tuesday, saying the network “created fake news to advance President Trump’s agenda.”
The suit, first reported by NPR, concerns a fake conspiracy theory around Seth Rich, which says Rich was in communication with Wikileaks and leaked the organization DNC emails during the 2016 presidential campaign — not Russia, as major US intelligence agencies concluded. The far-right and pro-Trump media, like Fox News, latched on to the false information as proof that President Trump’s campaign didn’t collude with Russia to tip the election in his favor.
Rod Wheeler, a former DC Metropolitan Police Department homicide detective and Fox News contributor, said that he met with then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer in his West Wing office to review a Fox News piece about the false conspiracy theory before it ran.
Accompanying Wheeler to the Spicer interview was Ed Butowsky — a Trump backer, Dallas investor and unpaid Fox contributor on financial matters. Butowsky had offered to pay Wheeler to investigate the death of Seth Rich, on behalf of his family.
Continue to Buzzfeed.com article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/rod-wheeler-sues-fox-news?utm_term=.vwgmo2lRx#.eeO8PDvow
