Last week, Fox News correspondent Doug McKelway revealed a past encounter he had Debra Katz, a lawyer representing Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. (Daily Wire)
During the mid-1990s, when McKelway was working for an NBC News affiliate in Washington, D.C., the reporter confronted Katz over a racial discrimination suit she was filing which “smelled of a shakedown attempt” to him. The timing of the filing, per McKelway, was a typical “technique” often used to procure a settlement void of any trial. When he confronted Katz, she “[r]ipped the mike off, called my lefty news director, who then called me, and pulled me off the story,” he recounted. “It’s riveted in my memory. Always thought she was sleazy, and I guess my news director was, too,” McKelway said. Here’s McKelway’s story, pulled from his tweets:
My Debra Katz story. In the mid 1990s, I was anchoring for NBC4 in DC. She sent a fax to us alerting us to a racial discrimination suit she was filing against Bank of America. It was late Friday afternoon. I read the suit. It was incredibly weak, smelled of a shakedown attempt..
— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) September 27, 2018
Went to her office with camera. Got miked up. I told her it smelled of a shakedown attempt, and I was familiar with the technique of late Friday accusation, too late for deep pocketed organization to respond with its multi-layered PR office in some distant city. The story would..
— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) September 27, 2018
Stew over the weekend, prolly result in a settlement, sparing her the hard work of trial preparation. She then …
— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) September 27, 2018
Ripped the mike off, called my lefty news director, who then called me, and pulled me off the story. It’s riveted in my memory. Always thought she was sleazy, and I guess my news director was, too.
— Doug McKelway (@dougmckelway) September 27, 2018
Prior to working for Fox News, McKelway reported for NBC, ABC, and CBS.
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