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Jeez. Ailes, O'Reilly, now this. What the hell is happening to FOX News?
Fox News co-president exits network
Emphasis mine.Co-president Bill Shine is out at Fox News, according to a memo to network employees from 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch.
"Sadly, Bill Shine resigned today. I know Bill was liked and respected by everybody at Fox News," writes Murdoch.
Suzanne Scott will become president of programming, while Jay Wallace will be president of news.
"Fox News continues to break both viewing and revenue records, for which I thank you all for. I am sure we can do even better," Murdoch's memo concludes.
New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman had first tweeted that Shine, who has been with the network since its inception, was no longer with the network "as of this morning."
Last week, Fox host Sean Hannity wrote in a tweet to Sherman that if Shine exited the network, it would be "the total end of FNC as we know it."
Shine was named Fox News co-president along with Jack Abernethy not long after the stunning departure of former Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes last July.
Pressure was building for Fox to make more changes to its work environment after Ailes and former top-rated host Bill O'Reilly were both ousted over sexual harassment accusations.
Scott has also been with the network since its inception in 1996 and had served as senior vice president of programming and development since 2009.
Wallace, who also joined Fox News in 1996, previously served as executive vice president of news.
Abernethy remains as co-president of Fox News and CEO of Fox Television Stations, the network said.
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2017-05-01, 09:33 PM #1The Undying
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FOX News Co-President Bill Shine Resigns
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2017-05-01, 09:34 PM #2Banned
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The CEO of Red Bull will create his own Breitbart-like news channel so it's fine.
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2017-05-01, 09:36 PM #3Titan
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It's surprising he would step down now at the height of Fox News' power.
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2017-05-01, 09:36 PM #4Moderator
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It's almost as if the problem is not just with the individuals, but the company and its culture...almost...
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2017-05-01, 09:36 PM #5Elemental Lord
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They want that Sky network approval badly and will axe anyone they think will be the reason it won't be approved. Some womens groups asked for Mr. Shine to be fired also. Not that they are responsible but another force that potentially pushed him out. They can't get sky network with womens groups angry at them.
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2017-05-01, 10:03 PM #6Pandaren Monk
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Maybe they'll actually focus on reporting the news, rather than political propaganda.
... I'm not buying it either.I don't think this matters nearly as much as you think it does.
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2017-05-01, 10:04 PM #7Legendary!
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Bill Shine was predator-protector-in-chief at FOX so if they are truly looking to cleanse their network of the misogynist trash infecting it Bill Shine would be one of the first to go. He ran smear campaigns against women who reported harassment by the aforesaid misogynist trash, as well as pushed those that persisted into non-disclosure agreements. Hopefully he will be the first of many to go but most likely its just an attempt at damage control.
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2017-05-01, 10:04 PM #8Titan
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It's time for him to let someone else shine. Originally Posted by Breccia
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2017-05-01, 10:17 PM #9Banned
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He is probably jumping off a sinking ship since, you remember Preet Bharara right? The US attorney that Trump said could stay but then fired him when he refused to resign? He was actively investigating Fox News at the time he was fired for them covering up their payments to sexual harassment victims. Something you cannot do when it comes to not notifying shareholders. That is against SEC laws. http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-attorney...ry?id=45522718 That link was from February before Bharara was fired. Originally Posted by Breccia
But now, when Breitbart is even reporting that Fox News is getting their investigation widened, you know you are in trouble. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...robe-fox-news/
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2017-05-01, 10:20 PM #10DeletedOne reason not to buy any of the bullshit the red bull company creates. Originally Posted by Cybran
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2017-05-01, 10:24 PM #11Titan
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I doubt he was fleeing a sinking ship as much as he was allowed to resign. Shine isn't remotely in the clear with regards to the goings on at fox even after quitting: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...igital-devices Originally Posted by Orbitus
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2017-05-01, 10:49 PM #12Banned
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Trump killed Fox News
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2017-05-01, 10:51 PM #13Moderator
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He did? I thought it was because their executives and hosts apparently have issues keeping their hands to themselves and their comments about female journalists and guests professional. Originally Posted by satimy
But that may just be me.
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2017-05-01, 10:54 PM #14Titan
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It's just you. Originally Posted by Edge-
And everyone else who's sane Originally Posted by Rudol Von Stroheim
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2017-05-01, 11:01 PM #15Over 9000!
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i hope fox deletes their "contributors and talk show hosts with more reasonable people" like Hillary did with her cloth.
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2017-05-01, 11:03 PM #16The Lightbringer
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I know it's hard to accept valid criticism lobbed at your orange role-model, but pre-emptive victimhood is just sad Originally Posted by satimy
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"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta ass."
I'm a British gay Muslim Pakistani American citizen, ask me how that works! (terribly)
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2017-05-02, 01:11 AM #17Banned
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No, Fox News killed Fox News by letting things go on like it did. Originally Posted by satimy
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2017-05-02, 01:31 AM #18Immortal
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Murdoch's sons are in largely charge now and won't stand for this 1960s Madmen style cavalier sexual harassment towards the dames they have working there.
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.
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2017-05-02, 01:36 AM #19The Unstoppable Force
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I thought Fox was gaining momentum now that Trump is president. Needless to say I have paid zero attention to how Fox News has been doing.
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2017-05-02, 01:43 AM #20Herald of the Titans
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Hopefully the Murdoch brothers' next target for the boot is that extremist tool Hannity. Let him wander in the wilderness of Glenn Beck's channel that no one watches, or maybe some forgotten joke of an AM radio station.
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