NYPD Police Chief's Son Is Fox's On-Air Anti-Occupy Wall Street Activist

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by David Badash on November 18, 2011

The NYPD has an ace in the hole when it comes to spreading anti–Occupy Wall Street propaganda: Local Fox TV station WNYW-​TV news anchor Greg Kelly — son of NYPD Police Chief Ray Kelly. On Wednesday, starting at 7:00 AM, Greg Kelly started his broadcast day by spreading the false story that the Occupy Wall Street protestors were planning on shutting down the New York City subway system.

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WNYW is the flagship TV station of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation-​owned Fox Broadcasting Company. Kelly was a Marine and previously was White House correspondent and covered the Iraq War for the Fox news Channel (FNC.) Kelly is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves.

To be fair, Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald notes that The New York Times also reported initially that Occupy Wall Street protestors were planning on shutting down the subways, but removed those comments quickly. Not quickly and journalistically appropriately, but they removed them.

Nothing better than a propagandist ace-​in-​the-​hole, unless that’s a relative who’s the ace-​in-​the-​hole.

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