A Houston TV station fired one of its reporters after she attacked the station live on air and recorded several conversations.
Ivory Hecker, 32, worked at local Fox affiliate KRIV until Tuesday, when she was canned, the Daily Beast reported.
Hecker had used a live report Monday to attack KRIV, claiming she’d been “muzzled” and vowing to expose the network, before smoothly transitioning into a report on soaring temperatures in Houston.
She took her story to Project Veritas, a right-wing news group known for its sting operations and for getting banned from Twitter for “repeated violations of Twitter’s private information policy.”
Project Veritas released Hecker’s conversations with her bosses at KRIV, in which the higher-ups decide not to pursue stories about Bitcoin and tell her not to promote hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure for COVID-19, because it is not.
Hecker also took aim at the entire Fox Corporation, including Fox News.
“I have been longing to part ways with this strange, slightly unhinged corporation since last August when I realized what they were,” Hecker told the Daily Beast. “I would turn down Fox News.”
In a statement to the Daily Beast, KRIV called Hecker, “a disgruntled former employee seeking publicity by promoting a false narrative produced through selective editing and misrepresentation.”
Editor’s note: An earlier version of the story misstated the reason why Project Veritas was banned from Twitter. The article is now corrected to say it was banned for “repeated violations of Twitter’s private information policy.”
