Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly has accused her former boss Roger Ailes of making sexually inappropriate comments to her and later sexually harassing her shortly after she first joined the cable news network in 2005.
Megyn Kelly of the Fox News Channel has emerged as that network’s weak link as Fox has fallen behind CNN in the ratings for a full month for the first time since 2001.
In a piece exploring AT&T’s pending $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, top media journalist and author Michael Wolff floats an interesting theory: namely, that if either former News Corp. COO Peter Chernin or current CNN chief Jeff Zucker don’t replace outgoing Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, Zucker could be tapped by Rupert Murdoch’s sons to replace Roger Ailes atop Fox News.
The New York Times noted that Chris Wallace’s moderation of Wednesday night’s Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate in Las Vegas marks “a bright spot in a dark year for Fox.”
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith revealed he is gay in an interview with the Huffington Post and defended former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes against claims that Ailes urged him to never come out about his sexual orientation in public.
Sarah Ellison writes in Vanity Fair about the efforts of Rupert Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan to renew the contract of Fox News’s “brightest star, Megyn Kelly,” who they see as a “big part of the future” of the formerly right-leaning cable news network, despite her “enmity” for the network’s other stars, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has apologized and says he is “filled with regret” for defending the network’s embattled former chief executive Roger Ailes earlier this summer after the network settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former anchor Gretchen Carlson last week.
Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the case that led to the downfall of Fox’s chief executive with stunning swiftness this summer.
Roger Ailes, former CEO to Fox News, is now an adviser to Donald Trump in his presidential campaign, according to the New York Times.
Fox News Channel founder Rupert Murdoch on Friday appointed two longtime Fox executives as the new co-presidents of the news network as it restructures after last month’s departure of Roger Ailes following sexual harassment allegations.
Remember the 1950 movie, All About Eve? In that classic tale of ambition and treachery which won six Oscars, an ambitious Broadway wannabe, Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, connives to push aside and replace an established star, Margo Channing, played by the legendary Bette Davis. So what does that have to do, you might be asking, with Megyn Kelly?
According to the Drudge Report, embattled Fox News CEO Roger Ailes will step down from the network, but stay on as a consultant for its parent company 21st Century Fox until 2018. A subsequent Drudge headline reads: “Murdoch and Son to Address Newsroom This Hour About Changes.”
Jim Rutenberg, Ben Protess, and Emily Steel report at the NY Times: Executives at 21st Century Fox decided to end the tenure of Roger Ailes after lawyers they hired to investigate an allegation of sexual harassment against him took statements from
Ever since former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed her sexual harassment lawsuit against the network’s chairman, Roger Ailes, the news media have been swarming like vultures circling their prey, furiously filing stories about nearly every twist and turn.
Radio talker and former Fox News host Glenn Beck wrote a blistering indictment of Fox CEO Roger Ailes, comparing his former boss to accused sex offender Bill Cosby and praising Fox host Megyn Kelly for being the one to “slay the dragon in the end.”
CLEVELAND, Ohio — At least one top talent inside Fox News has confirmed to Breitbart News that a major talent meeting among various different hosts is scheduled, and they are considering leaving with Roger Ailes to form a new network to compete with Fox.
Several reports claimed that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes reached an agreement to leave his position at the cable news channel, then quickly retracted or revised the claim.
An analysis of political donations that Nancy Erika Smith, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s attorney, has made shows she is a hardcore progressive Democrat who has given thousands upon thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates for office. Many of those Democrats that Smith has supported have repeatedly, viciously and very publicly criticized the Fox News Channel for its coverage, Breitbart News has found.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a conservative woman anchor at Fox News and co-host of the highly successful program The Five, is speaking out in support of Roger Ailes—the chief executive at the network—as Ailes faces allegations of impropriety from a former anchor.
I think it’s virtually the whole of the Democratic establishment, including the Obamas, the Clintons, and their billionaire financiers, such as George Soros. These are the people who are plotting to take down Ailes. And if Ailes goes, I’m afraid, so could America.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo defended Fox News boss Roger Ailes amid a lawsuit from former employee Gretchen Carlson accusing him of sexual harassment.
The sharks are circling Fox News, much to the delight of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, David Brock, George Soros, and most Democrats. If they get their bite on Fox, it will be the American people who will be bitten — that is, we will be the losers, because we will lose the one TV-news voice that gives the right a fair shake.
Michelle Fields — erstwhile Breitbart reporter, heroine of the Lewandowski saga, author of the #647 bestselling political commentary book on Amazon, and perennial guest of Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show — has weighed in on Gretchen Carlson’s dispute with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.
Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson is suing network chief executive Roger Ailes, claiming she was fired after refusing his sexual advances.
Donald Trump has had enough of Karl Rove’s wishful thinking parading as analysis and is going on the attack against the old establishment operative.
Gabriel Sherman writes that Megyn Kelly may have “gone rogue” by meeting privately with Donald Trump — without Roger Ailes’ blessing.
Kelly shares this year’s honors with actresses Lupita Nyong’o and Julianne Moore, fashion designer Vera Wang and renowned ballet dancer Misty Copeland. The five women will be feted at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon in Manhattan on April 8. As part of the outlet’s special issue, Kelly spoke at length about her public battle with GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, her desire to interview Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her future at Fox News.
Gabe Sherman writes that Donald Trump “was able to do something that no other Republican has done before: take on Fox News” because he has dirt on Roger Ailes from a former employee.
On SEC Super Tuesday, Donald Trump cleaned up. He won seven states and now leads the field with 319 delegates entering a comfortable stretch for him before winner-take-all states kick in.
Gabriel Sherman writes that “there are on-air signs that Fox’s attitude toward Marco Rubio has cooled,” and Roger Ailes is behind that decision.
With polls showing Donald Trump on track to score big in Super Tuesday primaries tonight, the GOP front-runner even considered being a no-show at the Fox News debate on Thursday that will be co-moderated by Megyn Kelly. According to a highly placed source familiar with the matter, Trump’s thinking was that he could send a powerful signal that he no longer considers Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio credible rivals for the nomination.
Earlier tonight, FoxNews.com covered a segment on Glenn Beck’s radio program where the host compared Breitbart News Executive Chairman to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Bannon, also a SiriusXM radio host, is a former Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy. The article appeared breifly toward the top of the FoxNews.com front page.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump slammed Fox News and the broader Rupert Murdoch empire for its open adoration of donor-class favorite Marco Rubio. As Breitbart News has previously reported, Rubio has been Congress’s biggest champion of Rupert Murdoch’s open borders advocacy efforts. Trump explained that Fox News has “protected” Rubio — constantly buoying his campaign, even as he has continued to perform dismally.
Fox News boss Roger Ailes released the following statement to CNN media reporter Dylan Byers:
Fox News seemed to confirm Trump’s account, in a statement provided to CNN’s Dylan Byers.
Roger Ailes wanted to redirect Donald Trump’s ire from Megyn Kelly to Fox News Channel as a whole so that he could take some heat off his star anchor without removing her as moderator of this week’s Iowa Republican debate, writes Hadas Gold in Politico.
James Poniewozik writes in the New York Times: “So Mr. Trump’s war on Fox News isn’t just a media spat. It’s part of a war for control against the power structure of the G.O.P. “
Those of us who obsessively observe the media never thought we would see a day like yesterday, a day when someone finally got the better of Fox News and Roger Ailes. The infallible network proved itself fallible with two of
This article first appeared in Mediaite. The sustained credibility afforded to New York Magazine‘s Gabriel Sherman is one of the industry’s great mysteries. Not since Eddie Mush in A Bronx Tale has one person been so consistently wrong so often.
Fortune Magazine interviews Rupert Murdoch about a column from Gabriel Sherman alleging that he has taken on a more active role at Fox News to compensate for a more “absent” Roger Ailes.
