The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a “co-conspirator” in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.
I am proud of your tireless effort to report the news over the last 17 years. I stand with you, I support you and I thank you for your reporting with courageous optimism. Too many Americans fought and died to protect our unique American right of press freedom. We can’t and we won’t forget that. To be an American journalist is not only a great responsibility, but also a great honor. To be a Fox journalist is a high honor, not a high crime. Even this memo of support will cause some to demonize us and try to find irrelevant things to cause us to waver. We will not waver.
As Fox News employees, we sometimes are forced to stand alone, but even then when we know we are reporting what is true and what is right, we stand proud and fearless. Thank you for your hard work and all your efforts.
Sincerely,
Roger Ailes
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May 29th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
Orly, would this be true and accurate if I made the statement:
Bill Oreilly (even all of FOX) dismissed your claims as frivolous to the public without providing the public with the evidence, nor did he/they provide anything that could dispute the evidence….
That is how I saw it happen..
May 30th, 2013 @ 1:59 am
yes, I believe O’Reilly was negligent and derelict in his duties and did not check the facts or, what is more probable, he acted with malice and knowingly defrauded the nation, aided and abetted fraud, forgery and usurpation of the U.S. Presidency and defamed me in the process. O’Reilly owes me an apology, a retraction and an opportunity to appear in his program and refute the defamatory statements and provide the public with truthful information
January 27th, 2014 @ 1:28 am
Bill O’reilly has great guests, then proceeds to talk over the top of them. A vain attempt to make himself look intelligent. Most of his guests have far greater intellect.
Please replace this dolt. Charles, Brett, Britt, Megan, Shannon, etc. You have a great cast of super qualified folks to choose from. Sincerely