This report suggests that more people are getting in touch with Carlson's lawyers with similar complaints:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/07/gretchen-carlson-roger-ailes-fox-news-lawsuit-other-women As for the seriousness of the internal inquiry, based on what the Murdochs have done in Britain with their newspapers when they closed down the very profitable News of the World after the hacking scandal, I don't doubt that they would perform major surgery to save the patient. FNC is very profitable; people can be replaced. Adam On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was a good story. I didn't watch the show so I didn't realize > they had significant on-air tension. > > http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/fox-news-and-friends-gretchen-carlson-steve-doocy-brian-kilmeade-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-lawsuit-214029 > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Meanwhile, Fox says there will be an internal investigation (and don't > be > >> sure that it will be perfunctory, since it's no secret that James and > >> Lachlan Murdoch, who are running 21st Century Fox, are not as enamored > of > >> Ailes as their father), while Ailes has predictably fiercely defended > >> himself in a statement and calls the suit "offensive," hinting that > Carlson > >> should be glad that her talents were appreciated so much at FNC (oh, > >> intercourse me): > >> > >> > >> > http://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-launches-internal-review-into-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-allegations > >> > >> Granted, FNC's main audience isn't going to think that there's anything > >> wrong going on here, but if Carlson's claims are legitimate (and I > suspect > >> they are), either Ailes is gone or he figures out a way to get out of > it and > >> throws Doocy overboard. Considering that a chronic abuser of women in > >> Chicago was recently forced to close his theater company for even worse > >> actions (and granted, theater's a lot more liberal-leaning than Fox > News), > >> Ailes is not safe. > > > > > > The FNC internal investigation is for damage control. Now that this is in > > the public, they want to see if other employees will step forward and > either > > corroborate Carlson's story or say that they were harassed in the same > way. > > They then have to decide whether a quiet settlement or public court > fight is > > preferable. > > > > And let's acknowledge Carlson's courage. Her social media probably (since > > hers and mine don't overlap I can't verify it) blew up today with angry > > violent misogyny and that would continue into the foreseeable future. > Unless > > she wants to leave the public sphere she can't just disconnect from those > > platforms. Plus she is seen as betraying the conservative movement and > that > > increases the anger. She can no longer work in conservative media and if > > that's where her heart is, it's now closed to her for good. > > > > -- > > -- > > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "TVorNotTV" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... 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