Fox News, and Sean Hannity in particular, often promote unsubstantiated news stories. One of the most recent fake stories is about the unsolved, tragic murder of Seth Rich, a Democratic Party staff member a year ago. Fox News and Hannity went to great lengths to insist that the source of the leaked DNC Emails came from inside the party, and insinuated this was the motive for Mr. Rich's murder - and worse.
In May, Fox forced Hannity to quit reporting on the story. However, NPR reported yesterday that Fox News is now being sued by Rod Wheeler, one of the Fox 'experts' who appeared on Hannity's show. He is claiming defamation of character, and says in the suit that the Fox News Channel and Ed Butowsky, a wealthy supporter of President Trump, worked with the White House to advance the story in order to deflect attention from the Russia probe.
This isn't journalism. It's fake news meant to protect Trump from very serious allegations. The only action the public can take to stop this is to boycott the principal sponsors of Fox News Corporation and Sean Hannity for promoting this garbage.
Hannity gets most of his advertising dollars from the auto industry, insurance companies, and weight loss brands. Please sign the petition to these companies to drop their ads from Hannity's show: Alfa Romeo, Allstate, Hyundai, Jenny Craig, John Deere, Liberty Mutual, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, and Nutrisystem.
The link below is to the full NPR report:
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story
