{"id":176019,"date":"2021-06-17T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=176019"},"modified":"2021-06-18T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:42:10","slug":"houston-tv-reporter-suspended-after-exposing-her-stations-corruption-censorship-of-hcq-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/houston-tv-reporter-suspended-after-exposing-her-stations-corruption-censorship-of-hcq-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston TV reporter suspended after exposing her station\u2019s corruption, censorship of HCQ stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Natural News<\/a>) A\u00a0reporter for a Fox<\/em> affiliate in Houston has been suspended after exposing her bosses\u2019 corruption and illustrating how they deceive viewers to protect their advertisers.<\/p>\n

Ivory Hecker, a dayside reporter on the 5 and 6 o\u2019clock news for FOX 26 Houston<\/em>, shared recordings of her superiors and colleagues with Project Veritas that highlighted the censorship<\/a> they\u2019ve been directing at stories on topics like COVID-19 and Bitcoin. She added that the affiliate\u2019s leadership has been submitting to the corporate interests of Fox instead of being transparent with viewers.<\/p>\n

She told Project Veritas<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s a narrative. Yes, it is unspoken. But if you accidentally step outside the narrative, if you don\u2019t sense what that narrative is and go with it, there will be grave consequences for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

One incident she shared had a decidedly racial tone, with Assistant News Director Lee Meier telling her that stories were judged based on certain demographics and that a \u201cpoor African-American audience\u201d would not be interested in Bitcoin stories.<\/p>\n

She was particularly unhappy about the pressure network execs placed on her to minimize stories<\/a> that paint the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in a positive light as a COVID-19 treatment. Her bosses said she shouldn\u2019t have questioned United Memorial Medical Center Chief of Staff Dr. Joseph Varan about the drug in an interview in which he touted its success. She said Fox wrote a defamatory letter about the incident and put it in her file to stop her from moving up in the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Natural News)
\n A reporter for a Fox affiliate in Houston has been suspended after exposing her bosses\u2019 corruption and illustrating how they deceive viewers to protect their advertisers.
\nIvory Hecker, a dayside reporter on the 5 and 6 o\u2019clock news for FOX 26 Houston, shared recordings of her superiors and colleagues with Project Veritas that highlighted the censorship they\u2019ve been directing at stories on topics like COVID-19 and Bitcoin. She added that the affiliate\u2019s leadership has been submitting to the corporate interests of Fox instead of being transparent with viewers.
\nShe told Project Veritas: \u201cThere\u2019s a narrative. Yes, it is unspoken. But if you accidentally step outside the narrative, if you don\u2019t sense what that narrative is and go with it, there will be grave consequences for you.\u201d
\nOne incident she shared had a decidedly racial tone, with Assistant News Director Lee Meier telling her that stories were judged based on certain demographics and that a \u201cpoor African-American audience\u201d would not be interested in Bitcoin stories.
\nShe was particularly unhappy about the pressure network execs placed on her to minimize stories that paint the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in a positive light as a COVID-19 treatment. Her bosses said she shouldn\u2019t have questioned United Memorial Medical Center Chief of Staff Dr. Joseph Varan about the drug in an interview in which he touted its success. She said Fox wrote a defamatory letter about the incident and put it in her file to stop her from moving up in the company.
\nOn July 29, she voiced her frustration on Instagram about Facebook and Twitter\u2019s censorship of Dr. Stella Immanuel, a doctor who has been vocal about her success in treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ. In a post entitled \u201cA free press = a free people\u201d, she wrote: \u201cFreedom of information is critical to the freedom of the people, as history has told time and time again.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s shed light on all information and let the public decide rather than hiding information from the public. Is this woman making false or harmful claims? Then leave the video up and allow us to expose those things.\u201d
\nAd dollars mean vaccines can\u2019t be painted in a negative light
\nShe said that ad dollars from the CDC and other money-making incentives were behind the censorship. Fox 26 Sales Coordinator Jennifer Bourgeois admitted on tape how the CDC has been influencing their station and others quite heavily because of the amount of money they\u2019re throwing at ad campaigns, which is setting the stage for how these networks cover major health issues like COVID-19.
\n\u201cVaccines are a potential money maker for Fox,\u201d Hecker stated. \u201cFox gets paid for that. As a viewer, you need to look at who is advertising on this TV station, and you\u2019ve got to realize \u2014 surely that the TV station doesn\u2019t want to hurt its advertisers.\u201d
\nShe also said that she had turned down an opportunity to work as a reporter for a global Chinese news network because she doesn\u2019t like the way the communist government censors reporters \u2013 and now she is on the receiving end of censorship right here in the U.S.
\nHecker once had a meeting with Fox News execs, who told her that what she needed to be successful in her career was getting in line with the narrative. That conversation left her so frustrated that she says she would turn them down if they offered her a job. In fact, she told the Daily Beast that she no longer wants to work in corporate media.
\nWhy did she decide to expose her network? Hecker said she wanted to shed light on these issues because she wants viewers to know that they are being deceived and she does not wish to participate in the corruption that goes on there.
\nIt is sad but not surprising that this brave journalist lost her job for trying to do what all journalists strive to do and the reason many go into the business in the first place: to give people the information they need to make the best decisions possible about their lives \u2013 and not just the side of the story that corporate sponsors want people to hear.
\nSources for this article include:
\nDailyMail.co.uk
\nProjectVeritas.com
\nHoustonChronicle.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":176068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[931],"class_list":["post-176019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-censorship","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t