Murdochs Leaning Toward Ousting O'Reilly

quote:

---

There are two main reasons cited for the potentially dramatic overhaul: one is the ongoing public and advertiser pressure on Fox to part ways with the embattled anchor:

The prospect of dumping O’Reilly — once unimaginable — has gained steam this week due in part to street protests outside Fox News headquarters and advertiser boycotts on O’Reilly’s air. One network insider said Fox executives are alarmed by the severity of the ad-revenue decline. “It’s worse than Glenn Beck,” the insider said, referring to the advertiser revolt that helped derail Beck’s Fox News career in 2011.

Another is the Murdochs’ pending $14 billion takeover of European pay-TV provider Sky.

On May 16, the British media regulator Ofcom is set to judge whether the Murdochs are “fit and proper” to own such a large media property. Removing O’Reilly could appease critics and help close the Sky deal. (In 2011, the Murdochs abandoned their initial takeover offer for Sky after the London phone-

Then there is the allegedly restive Fox workforce itself:"Female Fox News employees are growing increasingly frustrated that the Murdochs have not forcefully confronted the company’s culture of sexual harassment in the wake of removing Roger Ailes. “Morale is awful,” one Fox female executive told me yesterday, adding that employees are wondering if budgets have been cut to pay for sexual-harassment settlements.

---

I know many here will be mad, but how many rapes are you guys willing to turn a blind eye to before you stop blaming the victims for being dirty sluts?

You're defending a guy who settled out of court with a woman who accused him of talking dirty to her while sticking a vibrator up his arse. Up his arse!

And caught up in Fox's den of sexual assault was that sweet sweet angel Megyn Kelly.

LINK