Gawker Will Go to Court in Fox Investigation Of Ailes & Gov Chris Christie

[kpete]

July 24, 2011, 6:50 PM
Gawker Will Go to Court in Fox Investigation
By BRIAN STELTER
Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.

On Monday, the company and one of its reporters, John Cook, plan to file a civil suit against Mr. Christie’s office to try to obtain records of the communications between the two men. Mr. Cook, who regularly uses freedom of information and open public records acts to ferret out information for his Gawker articles, said the court action represents the first lawsuit filed by Gawker to obtain information.

The lawsuit has its origins in a New York magazine story in May which reported that Mr. Ailes had called Mr. Christie and “encouraged him to jump into the race” for president earlier this year. The report piqued the attention of people like Mr. Cook who believe that Mr. Ailes, a former Republican strategist who has run Fox News since its founding in 1996, still has a hand in politics. Mr. Christie has repeatedly ruled out running for president in the current election cycle.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/gawker-will-go-to-court-in-fox-investigation/

[Chimichurri]

1. I was wondering when Ailes' name would show up. He's been painfully absent from

this entire affair. Lucky him - for now I hope.