This per Salon.com:Fox News as we know it may be screwed: Roger Ailes’ stunning rebuke could spell the end-- With Rupert Murdoch stepping aside, Roger Ailes will now report to Murdoch's Fox-hating sons
As many of you know, Rupert Murdoch stepped down as head of 21st Century Fox. And now, Roger Ailes, head of Fox News Channel--contrary to his own predictable fantasy script-writing of events--will be reporting to Rupert's sons, Lachlan and James. And get this: they're environmentalists who hate Fox News!!!
This part it truly delicious:
No one I spoke to in the hours after the news broke could remember a time when Ailes has been so publicly diminished. “History was made,” a longtime Ailes associate told me. “It is terrible for Roger,” said another. “It is a public contradiction. Roger takes these things personally. Worse, it shows that Rupert did not give him a heads-up of the management change in advance. That alone was a slight to his ego.”
He reports to his new bosses on July 1.
BWAHAHAHA
JUST DISCOVERED ANOTHER DIARY ON THIS STORY POSTED EARLIER, by accumbens, HERE.
5:36 PM PT: Per The Daily Beast:
“I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’ horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,” Freud told the Times.
Freud is Matthew Freud, Rupert's son-in-law, and great grandson of THAT Freud.
Also this:
One thing is pretty clear: Freud’s opinions are much more than just his own. They undoubtedly reflect those of his wife Elisabeth Murdoch, 41, a former News Corp. executive who owns a television production company in London, and are very likely in sync with the views of James Murdoch, Elisabeth’s 37-year-old brother, who has been taking a larger role within News Corp. in recent years. Freud often maneuvers behind the scenes on behalf of his brother-in-law, who is chairman and chief executive of News Corp.’s Asian and European operations and widely seen as Rupert’s heir apparent.