Fox News Kremlin Ties Go Much Deeper Than Just Sean Hannity

[7wo7rees]

http://observer.com/2018/04/report-says-fox-news-allows-putin-regime-to-edit-content-in-latvia/

With the revelation that Hannity shares an attorney with the president—namely the disgraced Michael Cohen, who’s now a key player in the Department of Justice’s investigation of the White House and its secret Kremlin links—it’s high time to ask exactly what sort of “journalism” Hannity is pushing at Fox News.

Moreover, when coupled with my previous revelations of Hannity’s “reporting” of rancid disinformation scripted by Russian intelligence as “news,” plus his clandestine relationship with WikiLeaks—said by President Donald Trump’s own CIA director to be a Kremlin front—Fox News is making itself a player not just in the Trump administration, but a target of any fair and balanced investigation of it.

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Let’s be perfectly clear here: Fox News is requiring its content being broadcast in a country that is a member of both NATO and the European Union to be edited to be more pleasing to the regime of Vladimir Putin. This is no small matter in Latvia, a country of only two million people, more than one-quarter of whom are ethnic Russians. That minority is habitually exploited by Moscow in its propaganda aimed at NATO’s eastern frontier. For years, the Kremlin has waged an aggressive, full-spectrum information war against Latvia, attempting to foment divisions in that country by making its Russian minority feel alienated and more loyal to Moscow than to Riga. In extremis, many Latvians worry, this noxious disinformation campaign could be a precursor to an actual Russian invasion—an event that has happened several times in the small country’s history.

[democratisphere]

1. Kremlin fox propaganda network.

Makes perfect sense.

[underpants]

2. Promoting Putin as a LEADER vs. Obama was a constant on Fox News

and other right wing media.

[american_ideals]

3. Please please take down Fox - they are destroying America

If the Russians wanted to harm America, they could do nothing better than co-opt Fox, that source of division, hate, and fear in this country.

In fact, if you were an enemy of America, and wanted to destroy America, helping the GOP billionaires who want to capture all the wealth in the economy is a great way to go.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Can't wait 'til they shut Faux News down.... can't come soon enough!!

[KPN]

8. Wouldn't that be nice. Won't happen though

without clear evidence that they deliberately colluded with the Russian government for a clearly and unmistakably treasonous purpose. A news agency influencing an election? Nothing new or necessarily treasonous in that. The media has always played an influential role whether we like it or not.

[american_ideals]

11. Thats not what FBI officers say

The FARA law is effective because of the way propaganda works.

Once the bias of a source is disclosed, its propaganda becomes much less effective.

If Fox is shown to have conspired with Russia, they are done. They might hang on for years but their audience and influence will be decimated.

Let’s pray the same happens for right wing propaganda talk radio.

[american_ideals]

4. Schindler deserves respect no matter what you think of the Observer

while we know the Observer has its issues, Schindler has a very strong rep: ex-NSA, and has been writing insightful pieces for a long time.

I trust Schindler. Don't dun him for your dislike for the Observer.

[FairDemocrat]

5. Nice!!! All we have to do is keep Sean Hannity and Michael Cohens name togeather all over the web!!!

It will be real simple when the Democrats take the House back: together they will bring Sean Hannity and Michael Cohen into congress for a little talk....I am not so sure Vlad Putin is real happy about Sean Hannity being exposed any way...I have questions over this?

[riversedge]

6. @FoxNewsKremlin needs a hashtag

[american_ideals]

12. Murdoch and Cohen and Trump

The real malevolent force behind Hannity is Rupert Murdoch — Western oligarch.

[GeoWilliam750]

9. Let me see if I understand this....

Fox is accused of being heavily influenced by Russia - by John Schindler in a Kushner family publication?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Observer

[sharedvalues]

10. Covered in post #4. Schindler has editorial control