NY Daily News gossip: Marital strife leads Brit Hume's wife to Fox exit

[DeepModem Mom]

Fox News' war zone is the D.C. bureau

Marital sniping may have led to the departure of Brit Hume's wife, Kim, from Fox News last week.

Kim Hume's imminent exit as Fox's D.C. bureau chief was announced Thursday. The buzz out of Washington is that she and the anchorman had been tattletaling on each other to the chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations....

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A Fox spokeswoman denied that either Hume has bothered Ailes. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she said. But another source told us that the couple, who together weathered the suicide of Brit Hume's son, Sandy, in 1998, often argued in front of staffers.

"Brit's not the easiest guy to get along with," said the source. "You disagree with him, and it's an argument. It's his way or the highway. (Kim) is a tough cookie, but he speaks down to her in front of other people."

Ailes — who took the top job after company potentate Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan left — doesn't need any aggravation. Yes, the cable home of Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Chris Wallace is a cash cow with $454 million in ad revenue a year, and with an average of 1.5 million viewers, it has double the audience of CNN. But Fox News has seen its prime-time ratings fall for 11 months in a row (it was down 23% last quarter from the same period a year earlier), just as Murdoch is trying to get $1 per viewer instead of its current 25 cents out of cable and satellite operators. Murdoch is also eager to launch a business channel....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/455669p-383459c.html

[trotsky]

1. "...but he speaks down to her in front of other people."

Gee, a rabid conservative who treats his wife like shit? Go figure. :eyes:

[malaise]

2. The end is nigh

They're unravelling before our eyes.

[BOSSHOG]

3. He and limbaugh can go down to the dominican republic

to relax and unwind. Just more "conservative" lying scum. "Can't get along with people." Wow, whodathunkit. No doubt hume has as many friends as limbaugh, the one's they can buy!

[Gato Moteado]

4. another "family values" dickhead

if his wife works for fox then it's hard to feel sorry for her.

[IntravenousDemilo]

5. One wonders what the Hume family values are.

One disowned gay son who later committed suicide because of a non-accepting father, and now this...

When you think about it, it's all very predictable.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Surely Neither Hume Took Fox News Ethics Home With Them

Surely neither of the Humes took Fox News' reporting ethics home with them after they called it a day. :sarcasm:

[SledDriver]

7. I wonder if they'll try to blame this one on Clinton?