Schloetzer compared Ailes to Rebekah Brooks, CEO of the Murdoch’s News Corp. His resignation comes amid a budding sexual harassment scandal. “I take particular pride in the role that I have played advancing the careers of the many women I have promoted to executive and on-air positions”.
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Ailes, who have an official function at the firm and no longer will serve as an informal advisor, will receive a severance package of about $40 million, based on a source familiar with the scenario, who requested to remain anonymous. Murdoch had barred him from the building starting Wednesday, according to one person briefed on the matter.
In what some present said was an emotional meeting, Mr. Murdoch addressed staff in the Fox newsroom in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday. “To lead a flourishing news channel, and to build Fox Business, Roger has defied the odds”, Mr Murdoch said in a statement.
O’Reilly and Kelly’s contracts are up in 2017, and stars including Greta Van Susteren and Sean Hannity all have clauses in their contracts that allow them to leave the network if Ailes departs, according to media reports.
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Rupert Murdoch returns to NY next week – and it is believed that is when Ailes will exit the empire he built.
Ailes groomed no obvious successor.
Roger Ailes has always been viewed one of America’s most powerful conservatives.
Fox News also must adapt to changing consumption habits, as viewers begin to demand more ways to access content on digital platforms. James and his brother, Lachlan, are top executives who run 21st Century Fox.
A “concerted effort” from Fox News and other conservative media has convinced the Republican electorate that the mainstream media has a liberal bias, Professor Grossman argues – and surveys have found that only a small minority of full-time journalists identify as Republican, with just over half calling themselves independent, and another 28 percent identifying as Democrats. Shine, Wallace and Clemente available for comment.
Ailes’ departure follows a string of sexual harassment claims against the executive. He will continue to make himself available as an adviser to Murdoch on an interim basis, the two people said, although he will not be directly involved with Fox News or 21st Century Fox. In rapid succession, it was reported that Kelly was among other women who had told investigators about harassment – again denied by Ailes – and that corporate heads Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan, determined that Ailes had to go.
In a statement, Carlson’s attorneys credited Carlson’s “extraordinary courage” with causing “a seismic shift in the media world”. We thank all the fearless women who spoke out about this issue. Parts of the website may not work as expected without them.
“I certainly think that some of the hatred and anger and racism and fear that we’re seeing in this election has clearly and absolutely been stoked and stroked by Fox News”, he said.
David Greenberg, a Rutgers University political scientist, said in a Politico essay that Mr Ailes essentially created modern conservatism in the United States, having worked with presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to George H W Bush. He would then decide whether a viewer would be interested enough to turn up the volume. His decision to take the top spot suggests the company didn’t expect Ailes to fall so quickly.
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“It has a very stable audience, and an important and stable role in American politics and I don’t expect that to change”, he says.
