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'Slap In The Face Of Christians': Fox News Employees Lament Matching Donations To Satanic Temple
Fox News donated money to several left-leaning advocacy organizations, including The Satanic Temple, according to a recent report, as the network comes under fire for its behind-the-scenes embrace of LGBT ideology and other progressive causes.
Fox News has developed a reputation as the go-to media outlet for conservative Americans. However, whistleblowers who either currently work at or once worked at the media outlet recently told Blaze Media that Fox News’ parent company is willing to match donations of up to $1,000 to several left-wing advocacy groups through its “Fox Giving” app.
Blaze Media’s Director of Programming Rikki Ratliff-Feldman spoke with two Fox News employees and one former Fox News producer who revealed that the company matches donations to three notoriously liberal advocacy organizations: abortion provider Planned Parenthood, LGBT activist group the Trevor Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Fox also matches donations to The Satanic Temple, which is known for its After School Satan Club launched to counter the Good News Club.
The Christian Post reached out to Fox News for comment and will update this piece when a response is received.
Screenshots provided in the Blaze report back up the whistleblowers’ accounts. A close-up screenshot of the company portal’s page offering employees the opportunity to donate to Planned Parenthood describes the company as “a respected leader in educating Americans about reproductive and sexual health.” The portal makes no mention of the company’s role in performing nearly 400,000 abortions in fiscal year 2021-'22.
As for the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization came under fire last month for listing the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC has developed a reputation for labeling opponents of progressive ideology as “hate groups.”
Ratliff-Feldman reported that “I watched [one] source physically log in to their company portal, at Myfox.Okta.Com to confirm the giving app and to see some of the questionable charities and the donation match option for myself to verify nothing was photoshopped.”
The former producer who spoke with Blaze Media cited the company’s willingness to match donations to the far-left advocacy groups as evidence of “complete disregard and hatred for Fox’s core audience, which is a huge part of the country.”
The producer, who along with the other sources chose to remain anonymous due to fear of reprisal, insisted that viewers “watch believing Fox is speaking for them, when in reality it’s a company participating in certain things that don’t match their audience’s values.”
“[The disdain] is driven more by executives, lawyers, and HR than people realize,” he added. One of the current Fox News employees who spoke to Blaze Media agreed that the company’s willingness to donate to progressive advocacy groups demonstrates a “mismatch in values.” According to the employee, “Our business model has turned into ‘just tell the audience what they want to hear.’ It’s about appeasing and assuaging the audience even though most people in the C-Suite disagree with their audience’s values. It’s manipulative.”
The Blaze Media report comes about a month after leaked documents shared by Daily Wire social commentator Matt Walsh showed that Fox encourages its employees to donate to the Trevor Project, which is known for pushing trans ideology in schools and hosts “a sexually explicit chat room that connects children as young as 13 years old with ‘LGBT’ adults.”
Another document shared by Walsh encouraged employees to read a book promoting “glory holes,” defined as “an opening drilled into the side of a restroom stall” where “you slide your [male genital] through and someone on the other side gives you [oral sex].” Additional findings presented in Walsh’s document dump include an employee at the network expressing disdain for the cable news channel’s core audience and the company’s collaboration with notoriously liberal ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s to host an LGBT pride event in the Fox News lobby.
A Fox employee pointed to the findings of Walsh’s document dump as well as the latest news about its donation matching for progressive organizations when asserting that “Fox pretends to care about Christians, but some of the stuff they push internally suggests otherwise.” The employee characterized “glory holes, trans surgeries for kids, and potential donations to Satan” as “a huge slap in the face to every Christian at the company.”
“It offends me personally that this company acts like they support Christians and yet they’re literally willing to match [a] $1,000 donation to the Satanic Temple,” the employee continued.
Fox’s internal donation policy stresses that the company “will not match or provide volunteering rewards to: Donations to organizations that discriminate on the basis of a personal characteristic or attribute, including, but not limited to, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, marital status, … pregnancy or medical condition either in its selection of recipients of the organization’s services, funds, or other support; in delivery of services or in its employment practices.”
Additionally, the company does not match “donations made to organizations that are private and non-operating, or political, religious, or fraternal in nature.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.Foley@christianpost.Com
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Fox News Settles For $12 Million With Ex-producer Who Alleged Intimidation During Dominion Suit
Following Abby Grossberg’s claims that Fox News coerced her into making false or misleading statements during the network’s recent legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, Grossberg is getting a $12-million settlement, her lawyer announced Friday.
In exchange, Grossberg — formerly a producer at Fox News — will settle all litigation she had brought against the media giant and its employees, including recently fired Fox host Tucker Carlson.
“We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation,” Fox News said in a statement to the Associated Press.
Although Grossberg maintained the legitimacy of her legal claims in the wake of the payout, she said she was “heartened” that the company took her claims seriously.
“I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” she added in the statement.
Formerly Carlson’s head of booking, Grossberg had alleged that the right-wing talk show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was rife with bullying, sexism and antisemitism; she was fired in March after filing her suit. Before working with Carlson, she’d been senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo’s weekly show “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Grossberg also alleged that Fox’s lawyers coerced and intimidated her as she prepared to testify in Dominion’s defamation suit against the network — and that the legal representation she got at Fox was far worse than what her male colleagues received.
Grossberg also said Fox attorneys manipulated her testimony to make her seem like “an inept journalist who ignored relevant warnings” and to minimize how overworked she was.
The result, she claimed, was “irretrievable reputational and emotional harm,” with herself and Bartiromo scapegoated in the Dominion lawsuit as “sacrificial female lambs.”
Fox News has previously denied Grossberg’s claims, saying they are “riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.”
A statement from Grossberg’s deposition — in which she said that correcting inaccurate statements made on her shows wasn’t important — had been cited by the voting-technology firm Dominion in a legal filing as evidence that Fox News leaders knew they were broadcasting false claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
“This was not the testimony Ms. Grossberg wanted to give,” her lawsuit said, “but she had been conditioned and felt coerced to give this response that simultaneously painted her in a negative light as a professional.”
In March, Grossberg altered her deposition testimony, issuing updates saying that her workload on “Sunday Morning Futures” made it hard to verify guests’ claims and that she saw some colleagues as untrustworthy political activists rather than true journalists.
The former producer also played a role in a judge citing Fox News for “discovery misconduct” after it was revealed in her revised testimony that the company had not turned over to the court recordings of conversations with former President Trump’s lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
The conversations in question took place before a Nov. 15, 2020 appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” and included Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, acknowledging the lack of evidence for his voter fraud claims. Grossberg said they were recorded on her phone and then turned over to Fox, but omitted from discovery because they would damage the network’s case.
Fox News ultimately paid Dominion $787.5 million to settle the company’s suit alleging that the network aired false claims of voter fraud in the race between Trump and the ultimate winner of the election, Joe Biden.
It was one of the largest defamation settlements in history. Fox News ultimately admitted to having broadcast inaccurate information about Dominion.
The Associated Press was used in this report.
Fox News To Pay $12 Million To Former Producer Who Accused The Network Of Rampant Sexism
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Fox News will pay $12 million to settle a pair of major lawsuits brought by former producer Abby Grossberg, her lawyer said Friday.
Grossberg had accused Fox News of pressuring her into giving false testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ historic defamation case against the network, and of fostering a deeply misogynist workplace. She had sued Fox News, its parent company, former primetime host Tucker Carlson and several senior executives.
In a statement announcing the settlement, Grossberg said “I stand by my publicly filed claims and allegations” but that she agreed to withdraw the lawsuits as part of the $12 million deal.
“I am heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously,” Grossberg said. “I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace.”
A Fox News spokesperson confirmed the settlement in a statement Friday, saying, “we are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation.” The company previously denied Grossberg’s claims, saying her suits were “riddled with false allegations.”
CNN reported earlier this month that Grossberg was finalizing a deal with the network. The settlement marks the fourth case Fox and its owners have put to an end this year, including the blockbuster Dominion defamation case, where the network paid out a whopping $787 million.
A court filing in Grossberg’s federal case in New York indicated that she voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on Friday. She previously dropped a related state lawsuit that she filed in Delaware.
The high-stakes battle burst into public view in late March, when Grossberg filed the explosive lawsuits against her former employer in New York and Delaware. Within days, she was fired.
Grossberg accused Fox News lawyers of coercing her into giving false testimony in the Dominion case, by giving answers in her deposition that protected the company and its top figures. The allegations sent shockwaves through the Dominion case, weakening Fox’s position on the brink of trial and introducing new evidence of potential wrongdoing by the network and its on-air personalities.
Grossberg was a senior producer during the 2020 campaign for Maria Bartiromo, who repeatedly used her show to peddle false claims that the presidential election was stolen. After the election, Grossberg moved to Carlson’s flagship program, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the network’s top-rated show at the time.
Audiotapes that she recorded while working for Bartiromo — including the host’s off-air conversations with influential Trump officials — became public amid her legal battle. Her attorney previously said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith was interested in obtaining Grossberg’s roughly 90 tapes for his investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the election.
In addition to the Dominion saga, Grossberg claimed that she suffered through a treacherous onslaught of workplace sexism and rampant misogyny. She revealed in a TV interview that the harassment was so severe that she thought about killing herself while working at Fox News.
The toxic environment worsened after Grossberg joined Carlson’s show, she said. According to the lawsuits, Grossberg witnessed flagrant use of the C-word, male colleagues openly debating which female politicians were “more f–kable,” and was asked uncomfortable sexual questions.
Fox News aggressively rebutted these claims while Grossberg’s lawsuits were pending.
The right-wing network fired Carlson in April and cancelled his program, amid the Dominion fallout. Jesse Watters, a similarly styled right-wing provocateur, is set to take over the 8 p.M. Hour next month.
“It has been the honor of my career to serve as Abby’s attorney over the past year,” her attorney Gerry Filippatos said in a statement on Friday afternoon. “A more courageous and honest person, skilled and devoted journalist, and fierce advocate for justice I have never met.”
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