Fox News wanted war images in Ukraine - their journalists died
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Fox News wanted war images in Ukraine - their journalists died

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 4, 202635 min
  • Politics

Fox News Correspondent Benjamin Hall had been accused by a colleague of taking unnecessary risks when reporting in Syria. Later, Fox News assigned Hall to cover the war in Ukraine. NPR’s David Folkenflik brings the in-depth story of a fatal reporting trip near Kyiv, where Hall was gravely wounded and two other Fox News journalists were killed. Now, the journalists’ families are suing Fox, saying the network put the story ahead of its people. One of the lawsuits says Fox gave Hall free rein to push the Fox news team into an area he’d been repeatedly warned wa...

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I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is The Sunday Story. Let's go back to an event two years ago in a fancy ballroom in midtown Manhattan. It's staged by the media giant Fox.

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Stars take turns promoting Fox's brands, including Fox News. It's my honor to introduce Mr. Benjamin Hall. War correspondent Benjamin Hall

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sets out a rousing mission for the network. From Ukraine to the Middle East and here at home, the dedicated journalists of Fox News are trying to inform America even in the most perilous circumstances. Hall knows peril all too well.

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