Rumor, speculation: "Is AILES finished at (Faux)?"!1 (Lloyd GROVE, Daily Beast)

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Remember our very own DU expectations that KKKarl's indictment was imminent, the only question being whether it would be counted in working or calendar days?!1 Or how David SHUSTER (who is MUCH better now) daily quoted sources supposedly with inside information from the grand jury guaranteeing the indictment, yet when it didn't happen his sources turned out to be lawyers who had had EXPERIENCE with the grand jury, meaning PUNDITS, NOT anybody with ACTUAL knowledge of what was truly happening inside the jury room or inside the prosecuter's office?!1

The three sources GROVE quotes here are all speculating. But it's delicious anyway.


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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-11/is-ailes-finished-at-fox/

Is Ailes Finished at Fox?

by Lloyd Grove

.... Ailes didn’t return my phone call, and a Fox News insider scoffed that this interpretation of events is foolish. “It’s just not true,” this insider said, noting that Ailes and Murdoch “have a great relationship” and that Murdoch’s corporate spokesman quickly issued a statement of support Saturday after the Times story was posted online with an eye-popping condemnation of Ailes from Murdoch son-in-law Matthew Freud. ....

Yet the elder Murdoch, my sources tell me, can’t have been pleased with the Times story’s implication that Ailes is single-handedly saving the struggling empire, whose earnings have been suffering in recent months because of substantial holdings in the financially besieged newspaper and broadcast television businesses. ....

“Rupert picked up his Times at the breakfast table, saw the story above the fold with the big photo of Roger, and probably choked on his coffee,” one insider told me today, noting that the 78-year-old media mogul reflexively bridles when the hired help outshines him. In (literally) the money shot, the Times reported that Fox News earns $700 million in annual profit, the brightest star in the News Corp. firmament, and that Ailes is paid even more than the boss.

Media entrepreneur Andrew Neil, who was a top Murdoch executive at the Sunday Times of London and News Corp.’s Sky TV before they parted on bad terms, put it this way: “Nobody can fly too close to the Sun King. It doesn’t matter if you’re making a ton of money for the company—you will soon be out.”

A third well-connected News Corp. veteran agreed, theorizing that the 69-year-old Ailes—a workaholic who almost never grants press interviews but burnishes the Fox News image through his aggressive public-relations department—gave an interview to the Times in order to cement his legacy and repackage himself for his next job or make clear that any departure from News Corp. would entail a fabulously rich severance payout.

“Now his legacy is secure and he will be known as Mr. Moneybags, so he can step up to the next job and blame ‘those liberal-commie kids,’” the insider told me.

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[Berry Cool]

1. But Lloyd Grove himself is an incredible idiot

and this wouldn't be the first time he claimed to have the goods on somebody (and even have evidence to that effect) and nothing ever came of it.