Fox 26 Reporter Ivory Hecker Says She Was Told to ‘Cease and Desist’ Reporting on Hydroxychloroquine
Texas | June 17, 2021
Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker told Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe that the Fox affiliate moved to muzzle her reporting on Hydroxychloroquine because it went against “the corporate narrative,” which has allegedly been influenced by Fox’s advertisers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and vaccine companies.
Hecker said that the station’s leadership prioritizes corporate interests over the viewers, and that she didn’t want to be a part of it anymore. “I want out of this narrative news-telling, I want out of this corruption,” she said.
“From the inside? Yes, there’s a narrative, yes, it is unspoken, but if you accidentally step outside the narrative, if you don’t sense what that narrative is and go with it, there will be grave consequences,” Hecker told O’Keefe.
The veteran reporter was suspended on Tuesday after announcing live on-air yesterday that she had decided to blow the whistle on the Houston Fox affiliate’s corruption with the help of Project Veritas.
“The viewers are being deceived by a carefully crafted narrative in some stories,” she complained.
Hecker secretly recorded the Assistant News Director, Lee Meier, talking about passing on a story based on racial demographics—specifically a story about Bitcoin because the “poor African-American audience” that watches the 5:00 news apparently doesn’t care about Bitcoin…
(Excerpts from the Virginia Star)