The 5 Most Interesting New Allegations About Roger Ailes and Fox News

[progressoid]

Based on numerous interviews with sources both inside and outside Fox News, the New York magazine article describes how Ailes allegedly pursued numerous women sexually, and helped to create a culture at the network in which casual sexual harassment of female employees was taken for granted. Here are just a few of the more interesting allegations from Sherman’s piece:

1) Gretchen Carlson secretly taped conversations with Ailes: The former Fox News anchor used her iPhone to record meetings with the Fox CEO in which he suggested that she should have slept with him in order to make her career problems go away.

This is especially fitting since Ailes was notorious for spying on his employees and anyone he considered to be a threat. Many Fox staffers said they were convinced that the Fox chairman was tapping their phones and even having them tailed by private investigators.

2) Ailes illicitly acquired the phone records of journalists: Sherman says in his story that the Fox News CEO managed to get his hands on the telephone records of reporters he believed were out to get him, by what a source called “legally questionable means.”

Among those affected were Joe Strupp of Media Matters, a non-profit organization that was often critical of Fox. “This was the culture,” one Fox News executive told Sherman. “Getting phone records doesn’t make anybody blink.” Media Matters has said it is considering legal action against Fox and/or Ailes.

3) Murdoch blamed Ailes for using Fox to support Donald Trump’s candidacy:

...http://fortune.com/2016/09/02/ailes-five-things/

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Wonder why the Grody Old Pervs...

Haven't set out to victim shame Gretchen? That's the usual procedure when these things come out.

She must have the goods on them, and how!

[okaawhatever]

2. Too bad this info isn't on the front page of every media outlet. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

3. IOKIYAAR

duh....ask yourself why David Vitter.....

never mind.

it mostly all goes away for that side of the aisle, or is it ailes?

one fun thing about this, though, is that Rachel M. really called out Kellyanne Conway for lying to her face about not being at a strategy meeting with trump, bannaon, ailes, etal, on august 21.

should be interesting to see if any other outlet confronts her with this, as she's been so prominent on the interview circuit, preening at her mastery over trump's id, and taking credit for his rise in the polls.

if they go after her for being, well, untrustworthy, will she take a Hillary-like powder from public view?