Hi. My name is Joe Muto. I was the Fox Mole.
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In January 2007, I joined the O'Reilly Factor as an associate producer, and there I have remained ever since. [...]
I am a weasel, a traitor, a sell-out and every bad word you can throw at me... but as of today, I am free, and I am ready to tell my story, which I wasn't able to fully do for the previous 36 hours.
Hi Roger. It’s Me, Joe: The Fox Mole
by Joe Muto, gawker.com -- Apr 11, 2012
Not so fast Joe.
The Murdoch Empire's legal eagles might have a few things to say about that ...
about your right to tell your their story.
Fox News threatens Gawker’s ‘Fox Mole’ with legal action: ‘A crime has been committed’
by Dylan Stableford, The Cutline, news.yahoo.com -- Apr 12, 2012
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In a letter sent to Muto on Thursday and obtained by Yahoo News, the New York-based law firm Epstein Becker & Green P.C. advised Muto "that your admissions are admissions of likely criminal and civil wrongdoing on both your and Gawker's part, which will be the subject of further extensive investigation."
More from the letter:
You should immediately stop providing information and videos to Gawker that you unlawfully obtained while employed at Fox News, and return them to Fox News. You should immediately stop writing columns based on information that you unlawfully obtained while employed at Fox News.
[...] "It's now in the hands of our lawyers and law enforcement given that a crime has been committed," a Fox News spokeswoman told Yahoo News.
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Such is the price of free speech in a Murdoch America:
you spill the Fox Beans -- you might go to Fox Jail.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee
by The Fox Mole, Gawker.com -- Apr 10, 2012
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The post that broke the camel's back might be familiar to some of you, because it garnered a lot of attention and (well-deserved) ridicule when it hit last August. The item was aggregating several news sources that were reporting innocuously on President Obama's 50th birthday party, which was attended by the usual mix of White House staffers, DC politicos and Dem-friendly celebs. The Fox Nation, naturally, chose to illustrate the story with a photo montage of Obama, Charles Barkley, Chris Rock, and Jay Z, and the headline "Obama's Hip Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs."
The post neatly summed up everything that had been troubling me about my employer: Non sequitur, ad hominem attacks on the president; gleeful race baiting; a willful disregard for facts; and so on. [...]
The worst thing about the Hip Hop BBQ incident is that we didn't back away from it. Bill Shine, who is a rather important guy -- sort of Roger Ailes' main hatchet man, and the go-between for Ailes and most of the top talent -- bafflingly doubled down and defended it. The story still exists on the Fox Nation site, headline and photo montage intact, to this very day.
That was it for me. It wasn't that the one incident was so bad, in and of itself. But it was so galvanizing, and on top of so many other little incidents, that I guess it just finally pushed me over the edge.
So here I am. And I come bearing gifts. [...]
Remember that outrage Joe Muto, in the worrisome days ahead. Remember that cringing disgust you felt everytime YOU help promote another "manufactured fantasy" under the guise of
"Fair and Balanced News."
Yes it was your job. And what Roger Ailes wants -- goes. Hell that guy single-handedly got Reagan re-elected, didn't he? Roger Alies is real Darth Vader in the Evil Empire. Alies is the one who runs that "Factory of Fear" with an iron fist ... as you, a former Fox drone, so well know.
BUT, now you are FREE, finally! Now you are free to speak your mind Joe.
Now you are empowered to undo the damage that your former employer has done, (with your creative production help).
Now you are free to "tell the truth" ... to tell the rest of the story ... of that editorial-fiat process, that most of America never sees.
That is,
if you still dare to follow your conscience, to give the world the gift of knowing how Fox goes about "Reporting Manufacturing their News" ...
That "Fair and Balanced" daily dose of Outrage, so that we all can decide what we really think about the issues of the day.
Be Mute no longer, Joe Muto. Dare to spill those Fox over-baked-beans.
This is still America, where Free Speech used to be paramount. Make it so, again Joe.
Make it so again.