Fox News has been embroiled in controversy over the last few months due to the overwhelming number of harrassment complaints from female employees against the network’s former boss Roger Ailes.
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I would also point out that a lot of the executives that have been named to and in fact elevated in recent weeks to fill the absence of Roger Ailes were people who are accused of enabling him and certainly loyal lieutenants for the two decades that he led that network and generated so much profits for 21st Century Fox.
“My FOX News colleagues have set a high standard for political coverage which I’ll do my best to uphold”.
Trying to tie a bow on the message that the Fox News and 21st Century Fox leadership have tried to convey, that its a different day with a different culture.
Minutes after the settlement was announced, it was reported that Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren will be stepping down from her show, “On the Record”, and Brit Hume will take over Tuesday night. While Ailes has long enjoyed the loyalty of Rupert Murdoch, the younger Murdochs – who are chairman and chief executive, respectively, of 21st Century Fox – have long clashed with the Fox News founder.
The US conservative TV station has apologised and reportedly paid the former Fox & Friends co-host $20m to drop her case. “I’m ready to move on to the next chapter of my life”.
A person familiar with her departure told ABC News that it was the result of “a financial disagreement”. Seeing as how Bret Baier, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly’s contracts contain the same clause, perhaps one or all three of them will be next. She’s been with the network since 2002. Although no reason was given for Van Susteren’s unexpected departure, she had publicly defended Ailes after Carlson made her accusations against him.
“I took advantage of the clause in my contract which allows me to leave now”, she said in the post. “The clause had a time limitation, meaning I could not wait”‘.
In a possibly related development, Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren said she is leaving the cable news channel, effective immediately, after more than a decade hosting an evening public-affairs discussion program.
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Van Susteren, who worked for CNN before joining Fox News, said that she hopes to continue in broadcasting.
