Judity Regan crashes and burns. (worse than you might expect...feast)

[WilliamPitt]

New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher
By SHARON WAXMAN and RICHARD SIKLOS

Published: December 19, 2006

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 — With Judith Regan’s authors still reeling from their publisher’s abrupt dismissal, the sparring between the headline-making Ms. Regan and her former employer, the News Corporation, grew more intense, more personal and more specific on Monday over accusations that she had made anti-Semitic comments that prompted her firing.

The News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, released what it described as notes of a heated telephone conversation on Friday between Ms. Regan and Mark Jackson, a lawyer for HarperCollins, the corporation’s publishing division that includes the ReganBooks imprint.

According to the notes, Ms. Regan protested that the publishing house had not supported her during a firestorm last month over a confessional book by O. J. Simpson and a related television program, which the News Corporation canceled after public protests and growing unease among affiliate television stations.

“‘Of all people, the Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie,’” Ms. Regan said, according to the notes Mr. Jackson made as the conversation unfolded; the notes were provided by Gary Ginsberg, an executive vice president of News Corporation.

According to the notes, Ms. Regan then said that the literary agent Esther Newberg; HarperCollins’ executive editor, David Hirshey; HarperCollins’ president, Jane Friedman; and Mr. Jackson “constitute a Jewish cabal against her.”

A lawyer for Ms. Regan, Bert Fields, denied Monday that she had said there was a “Jewish cabal against her,” saying that she had used only the word “cabal” in the conversation, and that was done in response to Mr. Jackson’s using the word in a question to her. But Mr. Fields acknowledged that during the heated conversation by phone last Friday, she had made some version of the first statement, drawing attention to the fact that her boss and others involved in the controversy over the aborted O. J. Simpson project were Jewish.



More: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/media/19regan.html?hp&ex=1166590800&en=4157a9e2e6feff5f&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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[Erika]

1. She didn't know when to keep her mouth shut

a syndrome of the GOP.

[justice1]

2. Could someone expain to me what she meant? I don't get it.

[Az]

3. What aspect don't you get?

She was playing on the old conspiracy theory that Jews control everything. Or was it something else?

[Cocoa]

4. she's pointing out some imagined irony in her situation

sez Regan, how could the Jews of all people put her O.J. project in the gas chamber?

[Rageneau]

5. Can Mann Coulter be next?

Please, Lord, please.

It's only fair.

[H2O Man]

6. She is not able

to take responsibility for her rather glaring error. Thus, she has to find an external cause for her problems, that allows her to be an innocent victim. It's a rather unattractive display of self-righteousness.

[EFerrari]

7. Time to update the History of Morans.

:rofl:

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Alas, Judith Regan will probably find a job w/Regnery n/t

[tecelote]

9. Scum vs. Scum

They deserve each other.

Religion has nothing to do with it.

There are no morals or ethics on either side.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Regan vs. Murdoch: Methinks this catfight has only started. . .

Get the popcorn.

:popcorn::evilgrin::popcorn:

[mitchum]

11. I called this one when it happened...

I told a friend that her remarks were either anti-Semitic or homophobic. Those are the ONLY two "unforgiveable sins" in her industry.