'Black ops and espionage’ inside Fox News [View All]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News television channel had a "black ops" department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged.
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 from its New York headquarters, and that he was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter.

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Mr Cooper, who left Fox News soon after its launch, provided a quote for a 1997 article about Roger Ailes, Fox News's president, by journalist David Brock in New York magazine.
The quote was not going to be attributed to him, but he alleges that, before the article was published, Mr Cooper's agent received a telephone call from Mr Ailes threatening to withdraw Fox's business from all his clients.


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Do you suppose the American media will pick up this story - or once again do you have to rely on the foreign press for stories critical of Fox?


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