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Pinkerton: The Bill Shine I Know

News stories report that President Trump has asked Bill Shine, the former Fox News co-president, to come aboard the White House staff.  Shine’s new job, at least in part, would be to direct communications. This news might not strike some observers as a very big deal. 

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Economist Nouriel Roubini, anchorwoman Trish Regan, and Bill Shine

Sarah Palin: Andrew Breitbart Helped Me Defend Myself When Fox News Wouldn’t Let Me on Air After Giffords Shooting

The late Andrew Breitbart helped Sarah Palin defend herself when Fox News Channel’s former Chairman Roger Ailes denied her the opportunity to respond on air to the media’s false accusations framing her for inciting the attempted assassination of former Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords (D-AZ) in the days immediately following the 2011 Tucson mass shooting incident.

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‘Law & Order: SVU’ to Tackle Charlottesville Riots, Charlie Gard

The upcoming season of Law & Order: SVU is set to tackle hot-button political topics, including this month’s violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the story of Charlie Gard, the Britain-born baby whose parents fought and ultimately failed to secure him experimental legal care in the United States.

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Roger Ailes Has Died

Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report has announced that Roger Ailes, former CEO of Fox News, has died at 77 years old.

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Bill Shine Leaves Fox News

Bill Shine, who served as co-president of Fox News after Roger Ailes’ ouster, will part ways with the cable news network.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Economist Nouriel Roubini, anchorwoman Trish Regan, and Bill Shine

Pinkerton: Before Trump Nation, There Was Fox Nation: Fox News After Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly

An era has come to an end at Fox News. The departure, last year, of Roger Ailes, its founder and CEO for two decades, and the departure, this year, of Bill O’Reilly, its biggest star for two decades, means that Fox will be changing. What’s said of politics is also true of TV: Personnel is policy. Tell me the names of those who are making the decisions about programming, and the names of those who are actually doing the shows, and I’ll tell you, in turn, about the network. But first, let’s take a closer look at the country—at least its presidential voting patterns—pre-Fox and post-Fox.

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Steve Bannon: I Warned Roger Ailes that Megyn Kelly Would Turn On Him

Newly appointed White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon chided Fox News in an interview Friday, claiming the cable news network’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election was just as bad as that of progressive media outlets and predicting the conservative-oriented outlet would move toward a more “centrist” approach in the coming years.

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Me-Again Kelly on Fox, Ailes, Trump, and Her Future

In another feature story timed to the release of her first book, this time with the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly dishes on her scuffles with now-President-elect Donald Trump, her reported $20 million contract offer from Fox, why she does not identify as a feminist and how her alleged mistreatment at the hands of former network chief Roger Ailes caused her to feel a “sense of loss.”

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