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Fox News anchor, others hit network with race bias claims
Reuters ^ | April 26, 2017 | By Daniel Wiessner and Lawrence Hurley

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:24:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Fox News is facing renewed legal claims that it mistreated non-white employees, including a television anchor who said he was depicted as "the racist caricature of a black entertainer."

Eleven current and former Fox employees, including anchor Kelly Wright, filed an amended lawsuit in New York state court on Tuesday claiming they were demeaned, humiliated, paid less than white coworkers, and passed over for promotions.

The lawsuit was originally filed last month by two Fox News payroll employees. Tuesday's complaint added class action racial discrimination claims to the case.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; censorship; discrimination; foxnews; inc; journalism; lawfare; lawsuit; media; silencing; workplace
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1 posted on 04/26/2017 8:24:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Open season on FoxNews. This sure seems choreographed.


2 posted on 04/26/2017 8:25:51 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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He might be more comfortable at CNN. Sorry same issue there.


3 posted on 04/26/2017 8:27:52 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Holy crap this is quite an organized take-down of Fox

Once they do, Trump will have no defenders or even anyone presenting his side of the story (which currently becomes the correct talking point)


4 posted on 04/26/2017 8:28:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Fox opened their moneybag.
What’d they expect.


5 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:04 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t believe it, as said, why don’t they go after the Clinton accusers? Sheesh, and we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg with the Clintons.


6 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:08 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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7 posted on 04/26/2017 8:30:16 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Mr. K

First they came for O’Reilly and people applauded ...


8 posted on 04/26/2017 8:33:28 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Mr. K

You said: Holy crap this is quite an organized take-down of Fox

This would seem to be true. I wonder what Valerie Jarrett is doing lately.


9 posted on 04/26/2017 8:35:15 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: BlueStateRightist
Open season on FoxNews. This sure seems choreographed.

Well... they did announce publicly that they planned to take down FOX and any other right wing/conservative media.

10 posted on 04/26/2017 8:35:20 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Yes, the vultures are suddenly circling.


11 posted on 04/26/2017 8:35:51 AM PDT by pfflier
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First they came for O’Reilly and people applauded ...

Actually, Fox opened their checkbook for Gretchen Carlson who was able to cash out at 50.

Now they can't close it.

Don't cry for O'Reilly, his parachute is huge.

12 posted on 04/26/2017 8:36:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Given the new leadership directed by the wives of Ruppert's nancyboy sons, it's no wonder the floodgates have opened and everybody wants a piece of the s(t)inking ship.

What a shame the leftists inheritors are killing off the lonely island of non-extremism in broadcast programming.

13 posted on 04/26/2017 8:42:24 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who the heck is putting these people up to this?

Kelly Wright is a Marine who, as far as I know, was never prompted to act like a caricature (e.g., Stepnfetchit) on his newscasts.


14 posted on 04/26/2017 8:43:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Suppose he could always fall back on his old job at Raleigh NC doing local news.


15 posted on 04/26/2017 8:43:41 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Snickering Hound

Not crying for BO.

Just saying.


16 posted on 04/26/2017 8:44:04 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The left is waging lawfare against FOX News to silence it.


17 posted on 04/26/2017 8:47:53 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kelly Wright is a pleasant individual, but he has the charisma of a banana slug. And for a banana slug to slime the hand of those who feed him seems the apogee of chutzpah.


18 posted on 04/26/2017 8:56:26 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They always have that option. No matter what happens, in the final analysis, they can pull out the race card and play that.

It’s a necessary adjunct to affirmative action. Incompetent people are hired because of their race, they fail, and it is politically incorrect to notice the real cause of their failure.


19 posted on 04/26/2017 8:57:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FOX deserves what is happening to their network. They have been trending left for several years. The assault on candidate Donald Trump by their biased news talkers removed any illusion that FOX was still fair and balanced. The current flurry of gold digger claims should not surprise anybody. That table was set with the Carlson settlement. Easy money. The left is not taking Fox down, they have done it to themselves.


20 posted on 04/26/2017 9:18:32 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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