Maria Bartiromo Duped Into On-Air Interview With Animal Rights Activist Posing as CEO of Pork Giant
By Aidan McLaughlinDec 23rd, 2020, 10:29 am
Fox Business anchor
Maria Bartiromo interviewed an animal rights activist posing as the CEO of food processing company Smithfield for an entire segment on Wednesday morning.
At the end of her daily show
Mornings With Maria, the anchor issued a correction to the interview, noting: “We have been punk’d.”
The segment was presented as an interview with
Dennis Organ, the CEO of Smithfield Foods Inc., on providing vaccines for food workers amid an outbreak of coronavirus cases at one the company’s plants. Bartiromo was actually speaking to
The segment earlier on in the show was presented as an interview with CEO Dennis Organ on the process of coronavirus vaccines being distributed to food workers at the company, which had an outbreak of coronavirus cases at one of its plants.
However, as it was later revealed, Bartiromo was actually speaking to Direct Action Everywhere activist Matt Johnson, who remained in character as Organ for the nearly six minute interview.
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During the segment, Johnson acting as Organ said the food processing company has had a series of abuses to public health, animals, the environment and its own workers, adding that “the first change under my leadership is transparency and at times brutal honesty.”
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Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo ‘Punked’ on Air by Animal Activist Posing as Pork Producer CEO (Video)
The host issued a correction and apology at the end of her showLindsey Ellefson | December 23, 2020 @ 9:20 AM
Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo alerted her audience on Wednesday that her show’s bookers had been “punked” by an animal rights activist who secured a six-minute interview under the guise of being the CEO of Smithfield, a food processing company.
“We have an important correction to make,” the “Mornings With Maria” host said at the end of Wednesday’s show. “It appears we have been punked. Earlier in the program, I interviewed someone claiming to be the CEO of Smithfield Foods, Dennis Organ. We’ve since learned that that was not Dennis Organ, but an imposter making false claims about the company. He is someone who has absolutely no relation to Smithfield Foods. We want to apologize to Dennis Organ, Smithfield Foods, and t
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