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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Fox News Has Dropped to 50th Among Conservatives

Fox News Has Dropped to 50th Among ConservativesI It is a shame for the few we still like on Fox! But they finally got to us and we watch the few on Youtube.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Fox News boss Roger Ailes has been demoted in Murdoch shakeup — and he's not happy about it

Roger Ailes, the longtime boss of Fox News who has built it into a hugely profitable channel, has been dealt a massive blow by the bosses at 21st Century Fox.
There has been lots of change at the top at 21st Century Fox: Rupert Murdoch recently announced plans to step down as CEO, handing the company over to his son James. Rupert's other son, Lachlan, will join his dad as executive cochairman. And Chase Carey, the company's deputy chairman, president, and COO, will become executive cochairman.
In an emailed news release sent out Tuesday confirming its executive changes, Fox makes no mention of Ailes.
As news emerged last week that Rupert Murdoch was stepping down as CEO, New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer blog reported that Ailes released "what now appears to be a rogue statement" to the Fox Business Channel, saying he would continue to run the news network, reporting directly to Rupert Murdoch.
Ailes even went as far as directing Fox Business executive Bill Shine to tell Fox Business Channel anchor Stuart Varney to read the announcement on air, reiterating that Ailes would continue to report to Rupert Murdoch, New York Magazine reports.
But a 21st Century Fox representative told The Hollywood Reporter, "Roger will report to Lachlan and James."
That's a huge slap in the face for 75-year-old Ailes, who has long counted Rupert Murdoch as a close ally. Ailes built Fox News from scratch into a huge cash cow. The Hollywood Reporter said in a recent profile of Ailes that the channel was valued by Wall Street analysts at $15 billion and contributed to 18% of 21st Century Fox's profits in 2014.
Despite his huge contribution to the company, Ailes does not get along with the Murdoch brothers, sources have previously told Business Insider.
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Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesLachlan, Rupert, and James Murdoch (left to right) at The Television Academy's 23rd Hall Of Fame Induction Gala in March 2014.
Their feuds have been epic. New York Magazine describes a few of their tussles:

Ailes' tangles with Lachlan were legion. Not long after 9/11, Rupert gave Ailes a new contract after Ailes threatened to resign following a heated argument with Lachlan in the Fox newsroom. Four years later, Lachlan quit his job as deputy COO in charge of the Fox broadcast group after Rupert supported Ailes in a dispute over a TV show that Ailes wanted and Lachlan didn't. In 2014, Rupert did nothing publicly after I reported in my Ailes biography that Ailes once bragged to a Fox News executive about moving into Lachlan's vacant office, thereby putting himself closer to Rupert than Lachlan. "Do you know whose chair I’m sitting in? I'm sitting in Lachlan Murdoch's chair," Ailes boasted to his colleague. "Do you know who's sitting on the other side of that wall? Rupert Murdoch."

Judging by Ailes' history with the Murdoch brothers, and his apparent confusion around whom he will be reporting to, it's unlikely Ailes will be happy with the arrangements at the top of the company. His contract is up in 2016 anyway, and Ailes told The Hollywood Reporter back in April that nobody had been in touch to talk about a renewal.
One of Ailes' other close allies at the company is Carey, who had been deputy chairman, president, and COO since 2009. The news release from 21st Century Fox says Carey will serve in his new role through June 30, 2016. He has been tipped to leave once that date rolls around.

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