If they are going to settle for $20M the sooner they do it the better. And it does seem like she has them dead to rights with those recordings. Almost all I knew about Carlson before this came from Jon Stewart and SNL, where she was portrayed as mostly dumb. She may not be the brightest journalistic bulb, but she is coming out of this looking pretty savvy.
I do wish she had held out for a more explicit apology - Fox said she was not respected, which is a bit genteel for threatening to fire her if she did not give Roger Ails a blow job. As low as my opinion has been of Fox News, I never really imagined they were as horrible as this and related stories have shown them to be. But you have to wonder, even granting that they are maybe the worst, if this kind of horrific behavior was tolerated in their newsroom for so long, what is going on, maybe a little more subtly, in other newsrooms? On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if this will have any effect on Ailes v. New York Magazine. >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> That was quick.Gretchen Carlson settles for $20 million, gets an >>> apology. Fox settles with Gretchen Carlson over Roger Ailes sexual >>> harassment claims http://www.theguardian.com/med >>> ia/2016/sep/06/fox-news-gretchen-carlson-settlement-roger-ailes >>> >> First to Steve's point: it was quick because they got Carlson to agree > not to sue anybody else at Fox as enablers. The Murdoch sons want to > pretend that Ailes was a rogue and was thrown out to restore propriety. It > was clear that senior staff at FNC knew about Ailes and covered for him and > they are still there. > > As for Ailes v NY Magazine, Fox has an interest in it not moving forward. > NY Magazine has libel insurance so they are not intimidated. If the lawsuit > moves forward there is a discovery phase where everybody has to open up > their records to the other side's attorneys. In this case Fox are the ones > who have to open their records, not just Ailes. And anything turned up in > discovery can be leaked to the media so Fox will not stand behind Ailes. > And baseline competence says that the legal department of NY Magazine > checked the stories and sources before they were published. > > So Fox admitted wrongdoing by Ailes in their settlement with Carlson and > they do not want attorneys going through their records and communications > as part of an Ailes suit. > > In other news from FNC, Greta Van Susteren announced that she is leaving > the channel immediately. She publicly defended Ailes when the story broke. > > http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/09/greta-van- > susteren-abruptly-leaves-fox-news-004744 > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
