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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Fox News Installs A Meditation Room, Staffers Worry The Conservative Network Is Going Full Woke
PEOPLES HEADS ARE BLOWING UP: AS FOX NEWS INSTALLS A MEDITATION ROOM, STAFFERS WORRY THE CONSERVATIVE NETWORK IS GOING FULL WOKESexual harassment training, a new trans-inclusive policy, and (in Ollie Norths old office!) Muslim prayer rugs. In Roger Ailess old haunts, its not the 50s anymore.
BY GABRIEL SHERMAN
MAY 17, 2018 6:27 PM
When Roger Ailes founded Fox News in 1996, he made it one of the networks core missions to fiercely oppose identity politics and political correctness. Now, nearly two years after Ailes was fired for sexual harassment, Fox News is getting woke. Today, Lachlan Murdoch announced the networks longtime programming executive, Suzanne Scott, was being promoted to chief executive of the news organization, noting in the release that she made history as its first female C.E.O. Scotts elevation comes two days after the network announced it had settled the remaining gender and racial discrimination lawsuits from the Ailes era for roughly $10 million.
But as Fox News adapts its 1950s workplace culture to fit the times, staffers are on edge. According to sources, Fox News recently installed a meditation room complete with Muslim prayer rugs in Ollie Norths office in the networks Washington bureau. (Earlier this month, North left Fox to become the president of the National Rifle Association.) Staffers now attend mandatory sexual harassment training, and the employee intranet includes a section for gender-transition policies and guidelines. People are terrified. They kicked Ollie North out and put in a prayer room. Weve got a new trans policy. Youre not allowed to be transphobic, one source said. Other changes that would have been alien in the Ailes era include the creation of a workforce and diversity council. Peoples heads are blowing up, one insider said.
Its not the Wild West anymore; there are now policies and procedures, a network spokesperson told me.
Scotts promotion comes as the Murdochs are preparing to sell off their film and entertainment assets to Disney for $52 billion. She joins other women whove moved into senior positions at Fox News, including the head of ad sales, the C.F.O., and general counsel. But Scotts promotion isnt being greeted as a feminist victory by all. Some staffers view her as a symbol of the Ailes era, because Ailes directed her to enforce his miniskirt wardrobe policy for on-air talent. (Through a spokesperson, Scott denies this.)
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As Fox News Installs A Meditation Room, Staffers Worry The Conservative Network Is Going Full Woke (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2018
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flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)1. Get rid of Scammity and we'll talk
Actually, we still won't talk
Wednesdays
(17,332 posts)2. They can enact all the changes in the world, and they'll still rant about the same issues on air
Wingnut hypocrisy is SOP.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)4. They'd lose viewers if this becomes widely known.
I think we should make sure Trumpers know about Fox's progress...that nasty, nasty word to Trumpers.