Fox pulls story

Fox News’ Sean Hannity said yesterday that he’s backing off his speculation about the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich after talking with Rich’s family, who had appealed to the media to stop. The decision took Hannity off a potential collision course with his network, which earlier yesterday had removed a week-old story about the case from its website because “it was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting”. The report quoted a private investigator suggesting that Rich had some connection to WikiLeaks and its leaks of Democratic National Committee emails during the last campaign.