Murdoch Paper Accused of Pro-Trump ‘Catch and Kill’ Scheme

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-accused-of-pro-trump-catch-and-kill-scheme/

The New York Post faces being sued by one of its own reporters who claims it “caught and killed” a critical story about one of Donald Trump’s controversial picks.

One of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid’s longest-serving journalists claims that the paper’s editor-in-chief personally killed off a story which would have revealed key questions over Trump’s candidate to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Veteran business reporter Josh Kosman told the Daily Beast he had worked for weeks on a tip that Terry Cole, Trump’s DEA nominee, had been involved in missions which resulted in the unnecessary deaths of U.S.-backed operatives overseas.

But eventually it was killed off by the paper’s editor-in-chief, Keith Poole, in an email saying “Nope. Not running this.” Weeks later Trump said Poole should replace Emma Tucker as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, posting on Truth Social, “It’s an easy move for Rupert, and he’ll love the results.”