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FOX MOLE STRIKES AGAIN (BUT LANDS NO SOLID PUNCHES)

April 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

On the same day that Gawker.com’s Fox News mole, Joe Muto, was raided by agents of the New York district attorney, who seized his computer and iPhone, Gawker published a new article by Muto, which, like the previous ones, revealed nothing especially salacious or even inappropriate about the operation of the conservative news channel. (It […]

FOX NEWS “MOLE” IS RAIDED

April 25, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Although nothing further has been heard from Joe Muto, the so-called Fox News mole, since Gawker.com published three relatively tame posts from him two weeks ago, Fox clearly is taking no chances that he may strike again. “I just got search warranted at 6:30am by a very polite crew from the DA’s office. Took my […]

ANOTHER FOX NEWS PRODUCER QUITS

April 17, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Another Fox News producer who quit last week, saying that he had qualms about working for the network over the past three years, has ridiculed his former Fox colleague, Joe Muto, who was fired after it was revealed that he was the Fox “mole” who began moonlighting for the Gawker website. Writing under the banner, […]

FOX MOLE — COMMITTING CAREER SUICIDE?

April 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Joe Muto, the Fox News producer who got himself fired last week by offering himself up to Gawker.com as a “mole,” says he found himself caught in a career squeeze. On the one hand, he told CNN’s Reliable Sources, “they promote people for pushing this conservative viewpoint. … People at work knew I wasn’t really […]

MORE FOX NEWS POSTINGS FROM GAWKER’S “MOLE”

April 13, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Well, Gawker’s “mole” may have been outed — and ousted — by Fox News PDQ, but it now appears that he may have made off with the equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. Gawker today (Friday) is publishing some additional files it received from Joe Muto, including a photo of three men and a topless woman. […]

FOX NEWS FINDS ITS MOLE — SENDS HIM PACKING

April 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Well, that didn’t take long. After just two days of moonlighting as the Fox “mole,” providing inside trivia about the operations of Fox News Network, Joe Muto, an eight-year veteran of the conservative-leaning channel and an associate producer on The O’Reilly Factor was unmasked by colleagues, fired, and escorted out of the building. Two hours […]