saying -- >> reporter: even so, there is a line that's been crossed according to former abc correspondent bob zelnick. >> you talk about diverting public attention from news story because it feel it will have bad impact on the campaign of the candidate that you as a liberal member of the press want to see elected, that's outrageous. >> another e-mail be law professor wondered if f.c.c. can shut down fox news. >> you don't have to like fox to recognize that's authoritarian. it's sick and espousing it in public on the site. >> most of the writers didn't agree with branding select conservative as racists or stifling fox news but it still gives journalism a bad