{"id":5433,"date":"2011-07-22T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2011-07-22T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T07:15:12","slug":"fox-news-black-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/fox-news-black-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Black Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Faux Noise<\/em>, may be in the cross hairs as investigations proceed here in the US, especially given that Murdock had his own private hit squad to perform black ops, including telephone hacking here.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"foxlies\"Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a "black ops" department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records<\/strong>, a former executive for the station has alleged.<\/p>\n

Dan Cooper, who helped launch Fox News as managing editor in 1996, said that a so-called "brain room" carried out "counter intelligence" on the channel’s enemies<\/strong> from its New York headquarters, and that he was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter.<\/p>\n

Another former senior executive told The Telegraph that the channel ran a Soviet-style spying network on staff, reading their emails and making them "feel they were being watched"<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The channel, which has come under pressure amid allegations that outlets owned by Mr Murdoch may have attempted to hack the voicemail messages of 9\/11 victims, firmly denies all the allegations\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>><\/p>\n

One thing struck me.  A legitimate news channel does not consider others \u201cenemies\u201d. only subjects to be covered.  With Parliament on vacation, the UK investigation may be in limbo, but things are just starting here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Faux Noise, may be in the cross hairs as investigations proceed here in the US, especially given that Murdock had his own private hit squad to perform black ops, including telephone hacking here. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a "black ops" department that may have illegally hacked […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}