Another scumbag about who the vagina-grabber would say "He's a great guy!"
I think I just read that he's out the door, so there you go kids - a moral for the story: Groping and improper sexual advances are fine, UNLESS THEY START TO AFFECT THE BOTTOM LINE.
SOURCES: THE MURDOCHS ARE TURNING AGAINST BILL
O’REILLY
Gabriel
Sherman
MSN
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 factor: 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-hacking scandal.)
Meanwhile, the Murdochs are also dealing with a restive
workplace. 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. “There’s been
no word from management to calm the masses.” (Spokespersons for 21st Century
Fox and Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.)
Sources describe the Murdoch family discussions as fraught.
Initially, according to sources, Lachlan was aligned with his father, but in
recent days he has leaned more in his brother James’s direction. “The three are
fighting,” the insider said. In some ways, deciding O’Reilly’s fate is more
complicated than the decision to oust Ailes last summer. O’Reilly is Fox’s
highest-rated host and the linchpin of the prime-time schedule, so his removal
could have immediate effects on the network’s ratings. And according to one Fox
source, Rupert has told people he does not want to fire O’Reilly because it
would make it appear he was forced into a decision by “the New York Times.”
Rupert Murdoch built his media empire without paying much
attention to corporate norms and rules, but his sons showed with the ouster of
Ailes that they wanted to run a different kind of company. What happens to
O’Reilly will tell us more about who is winning the intergenerational battle
over 21st Century Fox.
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