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Fox News host Sean Hannity takes a vacation after losing more advertisers
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 25, 2017 12:16pm |
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| Author | Rob Tornoe |
| Media | Newspaper - Philadelphia Inquirer |
| News Date | Friday, May 26, 2017 03:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sean Hannity is taking a couple days off amid a growing advertiser boycott after pushing a conspiracy theory involving a slain Democratic National Committee staffer.
So far, seven advertisers have pulled out of Hannity’s show after he continued to promote a baseless story that claimed the staffer, Seth Rich, was murdered possibly for releasing DNC emails to Wikileaks. FoxNews.com retracted its story six days after first posting it, saying in a statement it "was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting."
Despite the retraction and pleas from Rich's parents to stop peddling a conspiracy theory about their son that had been discredited by Snopes, Factcheck.org, Poynter and numerous news agencies Hannity defiantly pushed the theory on his radio show before agreeing to drop it "for now" on his Fox News program. |
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