Last July, after Gretchen Carlson sued the Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox and Roger Ailes, the then-head of Fox News Channel, for sexual harassment, Rupert Murdoch told his sons, both Ailes enemies, that paying off Carlson without a fight would mean more lawsuits. Easy-money settlements always bring more claims. James and Lachlan Murdoch, however, were eager to get rid of their nemesis, and the most direct way to do that was to accept Carlson’s claims after a quickie investigation and then use a big payoff — $20 million — to end the dispute and calm the storm.
Nine months later, the chickens coming home to roost, Fox has continued to collect a string of look-alike claims against Ailes and against ratings giant Bill O’Reilly, with a firestorm of recent press attention on what The New York Times is calling the “O’Reilly revelations.” What has been revealed is not evidence nor an admission of guilt but details of payments settling complaints against O’Reilly — not a small distinction. You can assume maximal guilt, which the Times and other Fox haters do, or you can assume, as many lawyers do, that when there is money to be had, plaintiffs come out of the woodwork. (”Coming out of the woodwork” is a virtual term of art in big settlement tort cases).
One has to wonder how ineffective the HR department over at Fox News has to be for all this to be going on over there and no one is the wiser. Drain the swamp and end the HR department over there.
Think, what single kill could the MSM wished for after being handed their pants, pulled down around their ankles and their asses spanked?
FOX and its “fly-over” support required an “adjustment”. Get rid of FOX, there is nothing left, millions are disillusioned. The “Establishment” strikes again.
BOR, I have no affinity for and rarely watched. But, eliminate roots and the tree falls.
Good-bye fox news! The two Australian douche sons want something for the US that they should stick their noses back in their home country.
every lawyer on this planet should be taken out and shot
This didn't start with Carlson. Andrea Mackris, an associate producer successfully sued O'Reilly back in 2004 for the same lewd behavior. And, she had the tapes to prove it.
Rupert built a media empire, only to let his ball-less, metrosexual sons turn it over to their feminist wives for destruction.