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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Roger Ailes is to resign as chairman and CEO of Fox News. Rupert Murdoch is to take over Ailes' responsibilities. The resignation comes after accusations of sexual harassment. It is rumoured that he will receive $40 million as he leaves, but that he will be subject to a non-compete agreement.
Ailes had been with Fox News since its founding in 1996. Prior to that, he was a Republican political consultant.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:43AM
Runaway, Runaway! Did you ever get the feeling you were just out of your league here on the internets? Do you find that people misunderstand your points, and respond with points that make no sense to you? Then you might be a (tm Jeff Foxworthy) redneck. This is not meant as an insult, redneck lives matter, and some of my best friends are rednecks. However, I do not go to them for the finer points of political propaganda.
You are many things, but I didn't think you were especially obtuse.
See above. As Walt Whitman said: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
As bad as Fox is now, they at least pretend to be "fair and balanced". What happens if they just drop the pretense?
If they stop pretending? As in, a court case for lying resulting in the Fox News organization admitting that they lie? As a matter of policy? Fairy Unbalances, and that is just the Milo/gay side of the deep closeted Republican operatives. The "dirty old man" contingent, the "Fair and Look at those gams!" side, had some more cred with the Evangelicals, the "social conservatives", the "squirrel-eating Huckabee" contingent (actually squirrel is not bad, compared to prairie jack rabbit), but they are losing even that now that the men's rights crew are all whining entitled non-conservatives and gamergaters instead of "true" conservatives.
No, the point is that there is nothing Fox News can do that is worse. Anything that they do will remove the pretense of journalism, something that has been rather transparent to most for a rather long time. And then they will be less influential, less dangerous, more like the Washington Times and Breitbart, in other words, they will become toothless right-wing nut-job websites, just on cable.
The loss of legitimacy is the one thing that can kill an alleged news organization. Fox is there. Fox is dead. No one believes anything that Fox says anymore. Trump thinks they are liars. And everyone knows Trump is a liar. So when you are nothing but a liar to liars, well, game over?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:22AM
You should study a little about propaganda. I assure you, Fox can get much worse than it is. Your attempts at mockery don't change the fact that things CAN get worse.
I wonder - do you have a stunted imagination?
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