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The lawsuit accuses the right-wing network of discrimination, wrongful termination and retaliation.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-reporter-lawsuit-capitol-riot_n_6552ac62e4b0373d70b351f3
A former Capitol Hill reporter for Fox News filed a lawsuit against the network Monday accusing it of wrongfully firing him over his opposition to its coverage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The reporter, Jason Donner, filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., Superior Court accusing Fox News of discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation and violating the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act when it fired him in the fall of 2022 after more than a decade at the network.
Though Donner says in the lawsuit he often disagreed politically with the cable news network’s big personalities, he claims it didn’t pose a problem for him professionally until the fallout from the 2020 election, when then-President Donald Trump pushed baseless claims that his reelection was “stolen” through widespread vote fraud, culminating in hundreds of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers met to certify that Joe Biden had been elected president.
At Fox News, Donner claims, “reporters were facing pressure from the top-down to push the ‘election fraud claims.’” He says he was reprimanded for tweeting out facts about the election, with his boss telling him not to tweet his “opinions.”
Things came to a head on Jan. 6, when Donner, stationed inside the Capitol as it was coming under siege, heard Fox News reporting that the rioters were “peaceful.” He says in the lawsuit that he called the network’s control room and said: “I’m your Capitol Hill Producer inside the Capitol where tear gas is going off on the second floor in the Ohio clock corridor, rioters are storming the building, reports of shots fired outside the House Chamber. I don’t want to hear any of this fucking shit on our air ever again because you’re gonna get us all killed.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-reporter-lawsuit-capitol-riot_n_6552ac62e4b0373d70b351f3
A former Capitol Hill reporter for Fox News filed a lawsuit against the network Monday accusing it of wrongfully firing him over his opposition to its coverage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The reporter, Jason Donner, filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., Superior Court accusing Fox News of discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation and violating the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act when it fired him in the fall of 2022 after more than a decade at the network.
Though Donner says in the lawsuit he often disagreed politically with the cable news network’s big personalities, he claims it didn’t pose a problem for him professionally until the fallout from the 2020 election, when then-President Donald Trump pushed baseless claims that his reelection was “stolen” through widespread vote fraud, culminating in hundreds of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers met to certify that Joe Biden had been elected president.
At Fox News, Donner claims, “reporters were facing pressure from the top-down to push the ‘election fraud claims.’” He says he was reprimanded for tweeting out facts about the election, with his boss telling him not to tweet his “opinions.”
Things came to a head on Jan. 6, when Donner, stationed inside the Capitol as it was coming under siege, heard Fox News reporting that the rioters were “peaceful.” He says in the lawsuit that he called the network’s control room and said: “I’m your Capitol Hill Producer inside the Capitol where tear gas is going off on the second floor in the Ohio clock corridor, rioters are storming the building, reports of shots fired outside the House Chamber. I don’t want to hear any of this fucking shit on our air ever again because you’re gonna get us all killed.”
