[lbo-talk] Palin news

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 11 18:37:46 PST 2010


Interesting story in the NYT today

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html

about how the Murdoch family isn't fond of Roger Ailes. But they swallow their objections because he makes them so much money.

Michael Wolff adds some self-interested commentary at:

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/372/roger-ailes-rupert-murdoch-and-how-i-became-a-non-person-at-the-new-york-times.html?utm_source=otg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20100111

Woolf emphasizes this quote from Murdoch family publicist Matthew Freud, the hottest PR shot in London: "I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to." Wolff says Freud is almost never quoted in the media, so if he's quoted here, it's almost certainly Rupert's expression of distress. Which is kind of interesting.

Doug



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