NonilexAug 26, 2023
#Pentagon protested #false #FoxNews report about fallen #Marine, emails show

The network quietly removed the story based on false claims from a #Republican member of #congress but did not apologize or run a correction.

#USMC #MarineCorps #Marines #Sergeant #NicoleLGee #Gee #Arlington #KabulAirport #Afghanistan #FOIA #congressman #CoryMills #GOP #FauxNews #Fox #JayWallace #PorterBerry #MichaelLee #lies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/fox-news-retracts-marine-story-nicole-gee/
Pentagon protested false Fox News report about fallen Marine, emails show

Fox News quietly removed the story about Sgt. Nicole Gee’s burial expenses based on false claims from Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) but did not apologize or correct it.

The Washington Post
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The US #MarineCorps went up to the highest levels of #FoxNews last month to challenge a story that falsely claimed a fallen #Marine’s family had to cover the cost of transporting her remains, #emails… show.

#Fox quietly amended the digital story & then removed it from its website following more complaints from the #Marines but still has not apologized or corrected the erroneous report, which had been based on a #false claim quickly retracted by a #congressman.

#NicoleGee #FauxNews

Aug 26, 2023 at 7:10pmWeb
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The #Marines’ communications w/ #Fox were first reported by #Military.com, which obtained the emails this wk under a #FOIA request.

The July 25 #FoxNews.com story relied on an account from freshman Rep #CoryMills (R-FL), who stated that the family of Sgt #NicoleLGee had shouldered “a heavy financial burden” of $60k to retrieve her body from #Afghanistan. #Gee, 23, was one of 13 US service members killed in a suicide bombing at the #KabulAirport in the frantic final days of the US withdrawal.
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The story’s reporter, #MichaelLee, quoted #Mills calling the family’s supposed expenditures an “egregious injustice.” Neither #Pentagon ofcls nor Gee’s family were quoted in the original story.
#Marine Corps ofcls say the family did not face ANY financial burdens to have #Gee’s body shipped to #Arlington National Cemetery. They disputed the story in a series of emails to #Fox executives —incl’g #FoxNews pres & exec ed #JayWallace & ed in chief #PorterBerry— shortly after the story was published.