Although as it is reported she denied to renew, that isnt’ the whole story. What isnt being said is if Fox coughed up something similar to the $1 million a year she was getting before.
Obviously, with these kinds of things if she is being offered say $150k or 200,000 now and a 2 year or less contract. Then it could be said that Fox has cooled much more over her, than vice a versa...but the dollar figures are not being talked about! The $Dollar$ are the story!
UPDATE – Howard Kurtz reports on the Daily Beast Saturday:
“Fox News offered Sarah Palin a new contract before she decided to part ways with the network where she has held forth as a commentator for the last three years.
“However, it would be hard to describe it as a generous contract….
“The new contract offered by Fox, say people familiar with the situation, would have provided only a fraction of the million-dollar-a-year salary. It was then, they say, that Palin turned it down and both sides agreed to call it quits.”
After she went rogue on him, he had a big problem on his hands though. He couldn't outright fire her without bringing the roof down on Fox's head, and so he began scaling back her appearances (leading to her Facebook complaints), and when her contract came up to renewal, he only offered her a a new contract with an insultingly large pay cut. So she's walked away, as he intended, leaving Fox unscathed.