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Re: Bill O'Reilly shitcanned from Fox

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Its becoming increasingly obvious as one after another goes down that Fox was a festering den with a culture of sexual harassment.

But seriously, Hannity's going too? That is the best news I've heard all month. Good riddance, you worthless mother fucker!
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Perhaps a good idea at this point would be to shut the whole thing down for awhile and sort the mess out? From a PR perspective this has got to be a disaster of epic proportions.
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Tribble wrote:Perhaps a good idea at this point would be to shut the whole thing down for awhile and sort the mess out? From a PR perspective this has got to be a disaster of epic proportions.
As in shut down the whole network?

They would lose millions in ad revenue each day, and draw unprecedented attention to the whole kerfuffle. PR wise, the best they can do is quickly replace people as needed, and not discuss anythng. That way their loyal viewers don't go elsewhere for the story and they can build a new O'Reilly/Hannity/et al.
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Gandalf wrote:
Tribble wrote:Perhaps a good idea at this point would be to shut the whole thing down for awhile and sort the mess out? From a PR perspective this has got to be a disaster of epic proportions.
As in shut down the whole network?

They would lose millions in ad revenue each day, and draw unprecedented attention to the whole kerfuffle. PR wise, the best they can do is quickly replace people as needed, and not discuss anythng. That way their loyal viewers don't go elsewhere for the story and they can build a new O'Reilly/Hannity/et al.
Well, I envision that a never ending stream of harassment claims isn't going to do their image any good either. It's rapidly turning into a reality show: "Which Fox anchor is going to be terminated this week? Stay tuned!"

Hmmmm, that might actually increase their ratings now that I think of it.
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Flagg, you seem to be confusing at-will employment with right-to-work employment. Right-to-work is what you described with respect to unions: you can not be required to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment. At-will employment states that absent a contract setting forth the terms of employment, either employer or employee can terminate the employment at any time for any reason (so long as it is not an illegal reason such as discrimination).
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Gerald Tarrant wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
It's the purge of Fox News! :D

Is Colmes also in trouble somehow? :P
He died in February.
Not only that, but even if he were still alive, he hadn't worked at Fox for years since he was too liberal for them.
Tribble wrote:Well, I envision that a never ending stream of harassment claims isn't going to do their image any good either. It's rapidly turning into a reality show: "Which Fox anchor is going to be terminated this week? Stay tuned!"

Hmmmm, that might actually increase their ratings now that I think of it.
Why not just up the ante and have accusations that a Fox executive forced black employees to arm wrestle for the entertainment of their white superiors?
New York Mag wrote:The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O’Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News. “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect,” Rupert and his sons, James and Lachlan, wrote in a memo to Fox News employees on Wednesday. But the dismissal of Fox News’ highest-rated host isn’t going to end the crisis at the network. The toxic culture, fostered for 20 years by former CEO Roger Ailes, is proving far more difficult to remedy.

Next week, according to sources, seven black Fox News employees plan to join a racial-discrimination suit filed last month by two colleagues. The original lawsuit alleged that Fox News’ longtime comptroller, Judy Slater, subjected members of Fox’s payroll staff to racial insults for years. (Fox News fired Slater in February after those employees began litigation against the network.)

Lawyers representing the payroll employees are demanding that Fox’s accounting director, Tammy Efinger, also be removed from supervising an employee because she allegedly participated in Slater’s racist behavior. In a letter to the network’s lawyers obtained by New York, the attorneys state: “Not once did Ms. Efinger step in or attempt to interfere with Ms. Slater’s outrageous conduct.” The letter adds, instead, “Ms. Efinger chose to laugh or giggle following Ms. Slater’s vitriol.”

The letter also includes new allegations of racism in Fox News’ accounting department. According to the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Slater demanded that black female employees hold “arm wrestling matches’” with white female employees in her office, just down the hall from Ailes’s office on the second floor of Fox headquarters. “Forcing a black woman employee to ‘fight’ for the amusement and pleasure of her white superiors is horrifying. This highly offensive and humiliating act is reminiscent of Jim Crow era battle royals,” the letter says, referring to the practice of paying black men to fight blindfolded at carnivals for white spectators’ entertainment. The lawyers argue that Efinger bragged about wanting to “fight” a black employee.

The new claims, if true, reveal not just the failures of the legal and HR departments to deal with problematic managers but also just how deep the culture of discrimination and harassment may have run during Ailes’s reign.

Reached for comment, an attorney representing the employees, Jeanne Christensen, said, “There will be more complaints forthcoming in the next few days.”

A Fox News spokesperson said: “We can’t comment on a lawsuit that we haven’t seen yet.”
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Terralthra wrote:Flagg, you seem to be confusing at-will employment with right-to-work employment. Right-to-work is what you described with respect to unions: you can not be required to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment. At-will employment states that absent a contract setting forth the terms of employment, either employer or employee can terminate the employment at any time for any reason (so long as it is not an illegal reason such as discrimination).
Yeah, I'd never heard the term, so I figured it was just another way of saying "right to work". Thanks for the correction
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Is anyone surprised that Fox was apparently an utter sewer of a place to work in, with a culture of rampant racism and misogyny?

I mean, they're basically just living the world view they preached on the air.
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