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SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH DAILY
14 August 2002 / 5 Jumada ath-Thani 1423
Why has FoxNews quietly removed from its website its Israeli spy ring story?
PMWATCH, 14 August - Back on March 5, 2002, we issued an action call
complaining about FoxNews's surreptitious removal of a story by Carl
Cameron, published on FoxNews's web site on December, 21, 2001, alleging
that an extensive Israeli spy ring was in operation in the United States.
The alert was prompted by an article in Le Monde that indicated that FoxNews
was succumbing to pressure from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, and
from AIPAC. Three days after our complaint, FoxNews, just as quietly, put
the story back up.
The story stayed up until recently, when PMWatch tried again to access it
last week and discovered that the link to it was dead:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47491,00.html. Worse, a search of
FoxNews's web site for the expression "spy ring" has turned up nothing
whatsoever on the story. A search on stories that contain the words
"Israeli" and "Spy" turned up no link to the story, but did turn up one
page, dated March 8, referring to reader reactions to the story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40706,00.html . Needless to say that
there was no link to the original story in that page as well!
After a call by PMWATCH, on August 6, 2002, to the Internet Department at
FoxNews, we were told by a junior staffer that the story had been taken
down -- see: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html . The page
now says, "THIS STORY NO LONGER AVAILABLE". The staffer could not explain
why the story was removed.
Since then, we have repeatdely tried to get in touch with the FoxNews
website Executive Editor, Refet Kaplan, and have left numerous voice
messages requesting a return call on the matter, but to date, he has not
returned our calls. We have also left messages with the FoxNews newsdesk,
but again, to no avail.
The questions we would like to be addressed are as follows:
(1) Why was a compelling and explosive story about an extensive Israeli spy
ring operating here in the United States -- a story devastating in its
implications, a huge scandal if it turns out to be true -- quietly removed
from the FoxNews web site?
(2) Was the decision by FoxNews to remove the story in any way related to
the latest moves by the Israeli cable companies to replace CNN with FoxNews?
(See full story).
(3) Was the decision by FoxNews to remove the story influenced in any way by
pressures from the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, and by AIPAC? (See:
March 5, 2002 ction call)
(4) Is FoxNews sticking by its original story?
(5) Why hasn't FoxNews followed up on their original story -- whether to
refute it or reinforce it?
Please consider giving a call to FoxNews. Call: (212) 301 - 3000 and ask for
Refet Kaplan in the Internet Department.
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