[lbo-talk] Palin news

[Doug Henwood]

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