Fox News bans hosts from using name of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella

Published November 6, 2019 4:02pm ET



A Fox News executive sent an email directive to its staff that the network had not confirmed the name of the whistleblower and therefore did not want hosts naming who they thought the whistleblower is.

The email, sent by a company executive and obtained by CNN on Wednesday, dictated that hosts were not to name the whistleblower, and production staffers were commanded to “not fulfill any video or graphic requests” in connection to the whistleblower’s identity.

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