The story’s reporter, #MichaelLee, quoted #Mills calling the family’s supposed expenditures an “egregious injustice.” Neither #Pentagon ofcls nor Gee’s family were quoted in the original story. #Marine Corps ofcls say the family did not face ANY financial burdens to have #Gee’s body shipped to #Arlington National Cemetery. They disputed the story in a series of emails to #Fox executives —incl’g #FoxNews pres & exec ed #JayWallace & ed in chief #PorterBerry— shortly after the story was published.
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#Pentagon protested #false #FoxNews report about fallen #Marine, emails show
The network quietly removed the story based on false claims from a #Republican member of #congress but did not apologize or run a correction.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/fox-news-retracts-marine-story-nicole-gee/
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Sarah Ellison, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff & Shelly Tan: What key players at Fox News said about the network and its viewers
"The North Koreans do a more nuanced show [than Fox]." — Jay Wallace, president of Fox News in September 2020
"We are all officially working for an organization that hates us." — Laura Ingraham on Nov. 16, 2020, regarding the 'news' side of Fox
"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait." and "I hate [tRump] passionately. —Tucker Carlson
#foxnews #rupertmurdoch #jaywallace #lauraingraham #tuckercarlson
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