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Fox Affiliate Fires Reporter After Release Of "Censorship" Clips Via
Project Veritas
by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times,

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Fox News doing this, imagine what rest of Fake News Media is doing...

A Fox affiliate station has fired a reporter after she went off-script
during a weather segment on Monday saying she is being allegedly
muzzled by Fox News, and later shared with Project Veritas recordings
she says show the network’s censorship and corruption.

Ivory Hecker, 32, who formerly worked for Fox 26 in Houston, has been
let go by the station, a representative confirmed in a statement to
several news outlets Tuesday.

Hecker during the live segment claimed that Fox Corporation has been
“muzzling” her to “keep certain information from you, the viewer.”

“And from what I am gathering I am not the only reporter being
subjected to this. I am going to be releasing some recordings about
what goes on behind the scenes at Fox because it applies to you, the
viewers. I found a nonprofit journalism group called Project Veritas
that’s going to help put that out tomorrow so tune into them,” she
said, before proceeding with the weather report.

The 32-year-old, according to Fox 26’s website, was a general
assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. She previously worked for
KARE-11, an NBC affiliate station in Minneapolis. Hecker’s Instagram
says she is a music recording artist who has released several songs.

Hecker took her clips to investigative journalism nonprofit Project
Veritas. In an Instagram story on her personal account, she said that
she had made it clear to her bosses that she was recording them.

She told Project Veritas that the Fox affiliate station “came at my
throat for standing up against censorship.”

    “What’s happening within Fox Corp is an operation of prioritizing
corporate interests above the viewer’s interest and, therefore,
operating in a deceptive way,” Hecker told Project Veritas’ James
O’Keefe.

    “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 great consequences for you,” she continued. “My newsroom
kind of groups everyone into racial groups.”

In one of the clips Hecker shared with Project Veritas, Lee Meier, an
assistant news director with the station can be heard saying: “It’s
not just about the viewers; it’s about what our CEO reads; it’s about
what our GM [general manager] reads.”

    BREAKING: Fox 26 Reporter Releases tape of ‘Corruption,’
‘Censorship.’ Fox Corp Boss told Hecker “cease & desist” posting on
Hydroxychloroquine & ‘Poor African-Americans’ don’t care about
Bitcoin. “Viewers being Deceived”#Fox26Whistleblower
pic.twitter.com/vwVcy3MBvS
    — veritastips at protonmail.com🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) June 15, 2021

Meier implies in the clip that the station wouldn’t run a story on the
cryptocurrency based on specific demographics.

    “I have passed on Bitcoin stories…Bitcoin for poor African
American audience at 5, it’s probably not going to play. That’s a
choice I’m making. An editorial choice,” Meier says in the recording.

Hecker also revealed how she was instructed to “cease and desist” on
content that would present hydroxychloroquine as a feasible treatment
for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)
virus.

She told O’Keefe that she was sent to a hospital to report on COVID-19
treatment, and ended up interviewing Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of
critical care at United Memorial Medical Center on his use of
hydroxychloroquine.

    “We have used it. I mean, we know it’s a drug that has been
politicized up to the wazoo. We’ve used it. We use it with good
success,” Varon told Hecker.

In response, Susan Schiller, Fox 26 vice president and news director,
told Hecker she had “failed as a reporter.”

“You need to cease and desist posting about hydroxychloroquine,”
Schiller says in one clip, citing a New England Journal of Medicine
study on the drug.

“What’s happening within Fox Corp is an operation of prioritizing
corporate interests above the viewer’s interest and, therefore,
operating in a deceptive way,” said Hecker. “The viewers are being
deceived by a carefully crafted narrative in some stories.”

Fox 26 Houston has responded to several news outlets through a company
spokesperson: “FOX 26 adheres to the highest editorial standards of
accuracy and impartiality. This incident involves nothing more than a
disgruntled former employee seeking publicity by promoting a false
narrative produced through selective editing and misrepresentation.”

Hecker announced on her personal Instagram page late Tuesday that she
will soon be releasing additional recordings that show “the depths to
which the company will stoop.”

“This story has not fully been told,” she told her followers.

The Epoch Times has contacted Fox 26 and Fox Corporation for comment.