![]() “That’s what the Murdochs did to Roger, Bill O’Reilly, Eric Bolling, and they did it to Tucker.”Įlizabeth recalled a time when Rupert “sought solace in my house” after discovering then-wife Wendi Deng’s alleged affair with British PM Tony Blair. She further likened Carlson’s firing to her late husband’s ouster, claiming the Murdochs “figured out how to chop off his head” when he became too big. She mocked current News Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch, saying, “I was told he’s a spear fisherman, I don’t know if he spends time in the office,” and recalling how Roger used to refer to brothers James Murdoch and Lachlan as “Tweedle Dumb” and “Tweedle Dumber,” respectively.īut she saved most of her ire for the patriarch, Rupert Murdoch, whom she described as a “jealous man” who fired her husband because “Roger eclipsed Rupert on the world stage.” “Roger never had his hand off the wheel when it came to Fox,” she explained, contrasting it with the Murdochs, who she said “weren’t born here and don’t have the same pedigree.” Like what you’re reading? Subscribe to the Confider newsletter here and have The Daily Beast media team’s stellar reporting sent straight to your inbox every Monday night. He has the checkbook but could never come close to your genius.”Ĭonfider saw that tweet and immediately cold-called Elizabeth, who then spent a half-hour absolutely railing against the Murdoch family and their handling of a post-Ailes Fox News.Īccording to her, none of the network’s troubles-including its 2020 election crisis after calling Arizona for Biden, the Dominion election-lies lawsuit, or Tucker Carlson’s firing-would have ever occurred had the Murdochs not fired her late husband amid multiple sexual-harassment allegations. Roger would’ve been 77 today, and to mark the occasion, Elizabeth tweeted a pic in tribute to him, alongside a scathing caption: “It took you 20 years to build Fox News into the powerhouse that it was and only 6 years for the Murdochs to wreak havoc. While Fox News weathers multiple scandals of its own making, Elizabeth Ailes, widow of the network’s infamous creator and fallen CEO Roger Ailes, tells Confider: “Karma is a bitch.” ![]() Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here. It will for the foreseeable future remain top dog in the US news-radio business.This reporting is featured in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. And although no-one connected with the deal has confirmed that ABC is up for the chop, CC's Hogan has insinuated exactly that.īut even with the loss of its CC outlets, ABC Radio would still have more than 2,500 stations carrying its content. The broadcaster most likely to feel the freeze from the new partnership is ABC Radio, which currently supplies CC with its news output. But those close to the compact say CC will pay Fox several million dollars annually for the service. ![]() However, both parties are tongue-tied as to the number of trailing zeroes attached to the deal. In fact, it adds value." Smacking his lips, he added: "This will expand dramatically our coverage." The Fox-CC axis will fuel their fears.Ĭlaims CC ceo John Hogan: "We don't have a political agenda what we have is an agenda to get the greatest number of listeners for the longest period of time."įox News' chairman/ceo Roger Ailes sang from the same hymn sheet: "The issue is choices and places to get news and information, and this doesn't do anything to hamper that at all. The agreement also includes syndicated talk shows by some of Fox's cable news personalities, including Alan Colmes whose token liberal presence attempts to balance the general neoconservatism of the channel's output.Īlthough there is no talk (in public, at least) of a closer relationship between the two giants, CC which controls almost three hundred stations - thirty-seven of them in America's top forty markets - is permanently centered in the crosswires of civil liberties groups concerned at the concentration of power into the hands of a few giant media corporations. Up to 172 of Clear Channel's news and talk stations might eventually carry Fox's radio service, which includes hourly news updates each of up to five minutes. Fox News, the controversially partial news channel owned by News Corporation, has inked a five year deal with US radio titan Clear Channel Communications.
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