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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 18 april 2018
Fox News: Sean Hannity has our full support

By DAVID BAUDER capitulating to professional liams and Hannity interview
AP Media Writer norms and politically cor- guest Alan Dershowitz —
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News rect procedures,” he said. both suggested on the air
Channel said Tuesday that “The second option, name- he faced questions for not
it was as surprised as any- ly to not punish Hannity, doing it.
one to learn that Sean Han- would strip away the last But on the “Fox & Friends”
nity shared a lawyer with vestiges of its claims to be a morning show on Tuesday,
President Donald Trump but news channel operating in the hosts compared the
that its popular prime-time the journalistic mainstream, relationship to a friendship
host “continues to have our leaving it with no defense where you would informally
full support.” whatsoever against charg- ask someone for advice.
Hannity is a hot topic for es that it is running a propa- “Apparently Sean regard-
journalism ethics experts ganda operation.” ed their relationship as
and comedians alike after History indicates that Fox something like that,” said
his relationship with attor- takes action against its Steve Doocy, one of the
ney Michael Cohen was stars when its bottom line show’s co-hosts.
reluctantly revealed in a is threatened, Lakshmanan In addition to dismissing the
court hearing Monday on said. revelation as nothing seri-
material seized from Co- For example, settlements ous, Hannity on his show
hen as part of the probe on In this April 12, 2018 file photo, Fox News personality Sean were reached on sexual Tuesday blamed the “ab-
Trump’s Russian contacts. Hannity attends The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 35 Most misconduct accusations solutely insane” media for
Fox said Tuesday that it had Powerful People in Media event in New York. against Bill O’Reilly without attacking him.
reviewed Hannity’s “infor- Associated Press it affecting his job. But af- Rival news personalities
mal relationship” with Co- considered unethical, even a journalist.” ter they became publicly were quick to go after Han-
hen and talked with Han- more so when that rela- The issue plays to his cred- known and an advertiser nity (“This is crazy town in
nity about it. tionship is not disclosed to ibility, said Aly Colon, an boycott against him quick- the news business,” said
Hannity has described his viewers or readers. For that ethics expert at Washing- ly caught momentum, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski
personal dealings with Co- figure not to inform bosses ton & Lee University. Han- O’Reilly was fired. on Tuesday), and so did
hen as centered on real es- about it is often considered nity frequently draws con- Attempts by critics to fo- comedians. Ironically, one
tate advice, and said that a firing offense. nections on his show be- ment an advertiser boycott of the more subdued was
it “never rose to any level Fox frequently makes a tween different people to against Hannity in the past ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel talk-
that I needed to tell any- distinction between news suggest something nefari- have failed, and there’s yet ing about “my pal”; he en-
one that I was asking him programming during its ous is afoot — like a “deep to be any indication that gaged in a bitter dispute
questions.” daytime hours and opinion state” plot against Presi- this latest news is starting a with Hannity just a week
The prime-time host is both shows at night. dent Trump — so it’s partic- new one. ago over a Kimmel joke
Trump’s biggest defender “I don’t think it’s enough to ularly damaging when he “I’m not sure it matters to about Melania Trump.
in the media and Fox’s say that Sean Hannity was is revealed to have secret his fans, but it should matter “Jon Stewart, after the
most popular personality. not a journalist,” said Indira connections of his own to to a network that claims to show, I’m going to come
Usually, either Hannity or Lakshmanan, a journalism figures he supports, he said. be a legitimate news net- over and we’re just going
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ethics expert for the Poyn- The whole situation put Fox work,” Lakshmanan said. to spoon,” Stephen Colbert
has the biggest audience ter Institute. in a bind, said television Before it became clear said.
in cable news. “He describes himself as news consultant Andrew that Hannity had not re- The funniest line may have
For a traditional journalist, a journalist when it suits Tyndall. vealed his connection to come from CNN’s Jake
having a professional rela- him, and a commentator Firing Hannity would make Cohen to his superiors, two Tapper in a tweet. “Go
tionship with a figure he or at other times. If you’re an Fox “seem craven to its ide- people on Fox News — home 2018,” he wrote.
she frequently reports on is opinion journalist, you’re still ological base of viewers in “The Five” co-host Juan Wil- “You’re drunk.”q

Review: ‘Our Little Secret’ is remarkable debut by Roz Nay

By BRUCE DESILVA Finally, when Detective No- As Angela speaks, it be- marriage, but after gradu-
Associated Press vak takes a turn, Angela comes apparent that she is ation, she spends a year
Ten years ago, in the little asks: “Do you really want odd. Perhaps haunted. The studying at Oxford. When
town of Cove, Vermont, a to know what happened?” reader can’t help but won- she returns, Saskia has tak-
quiet girl named Angela He does, so over the next der how much of her tale is en her place.
Petitjean fell in love with 255 pages, she tells him — true. Angela has never been
the dashing captain of the everything. She begins when her fam- able to let it go.
high school swim team. “Our Little Secret,” a de- ily moves to town, settling in As she prattles on, Novak
Now, Angela stews in the but novel by Roz Nay, su- a house “that was sad and grows impatient, interrupt-
local police station, stone- perficially resembles Paula gray and looked hunched, ing with questions. Is Saskia
walling a series of grim de- Hawkins’ “The Girl on a like it was coughing.” Her alive? Did Angela harm
tectives who want to know Train” and similar psycho- parents, whose ambitions her? In the end, she pro-
if she can explain why her logical thrillers that have had gone unrealized, were vides the answers — but
first love’s wife, Saskia, has stormed the best-seller lists living vicariously through only in the final sentence of
gone missing. in the last decade. But her. Her father’s good in- this remarkable novel.
Their questions suggest Nay’s work transcends the tentions, she says, “held all ___ Bruce DeSilva, winner
they have a list of precon- subgenre. The plot is more of his own life’s ruin.” of the Mystery Writers of
ceptions they are trying to textured and heartbreak- Shutting them out, she finds America’s Edgar Award, is
check off. This, Angela is ing, and her prose contains friendship, and then her the author of the Mulligan
certain, is no way to get at startling turns of phrase that “soul mate,” in the swim “Our Little Secret: a Novel” (St. crime novels including “The
Martin’s Press), by Roz Nay
the truth. reveal the soul of a poet. team captain. They talk of Associated Press Dread Line.”q