"All PR people pitch stories to reporters, but Fox is unusually forceful ... and active in letting reporters know when it is unhappy," writes Alex Ben Block. "Among the hundreds of reporters with whom the [Fox News Channel [3]] publicists regularly deal, some have written things that are deemed so offensive that Fox just stops talking to them." The "blacklisted" include an Associated Press reporter who wrote an article about Paula Zahn leaving Fox for CNN and a Baltimore Sun reporter who, in late 2001, "noted that Fox correspondent Geraldo Rivera [4] was not actually at the scene of a battle [in Afghanistan [5]], as he had described."