"Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive" ~ lots of questions with NO answers seems about right for Fox ~ I had never heard of News Hounds [live link below] before, but I love love love its tag line: "We watch Fox so you don't have to!" ~ probably needless to say but I've now bookmarked that site ~
~ "live links" to more/corroborating information in the original ~ Sooz
Why Is Fox Paying Fired Executive $8 Million In Hush Money?Author: Ellen Brodsky December 13, 2013 9:16 am
Why would Fox News pay $8 million in severance to a guy who was allegedly fired for “financial irregularities” and “multiple, material and significant breaches” of contract? According to Gawker, it was to keep him from talking.
It began when Fox News escorted Roger Ailes’ aide out of the building.In case you missed it, Brian Lewis, the ex “right hand man” to Fox News chief Roger Ailes threatened to spill secrets after he was fired and quickly escorted out of the building last summer. Lewis was allegedly fired for “financial issues and other performance problems.” However, Politico reported that Lewis had been suspected of leaking information to writer Gabriel Sherman, author of the forthcoming unauthorized biography of Ailes.
Now Gawker reports that Lewis has been paid $8 million not to talk.
Gawker says it got the $8 million figure from an unnamed Fox executive who has “knowledge of the negotiations.”
Quote:
The Fox News executive, while acknowledging that $8 million is a hefty severance, said he believes the figure would have been much higher if Lewis actually had seriously damaging information to disseminate about his former boss. He also supplied new details of Lewis’s firing.
“That whole financial impropriety thing was complete bullshit,” explained the executive, corroborating the accounts of several other Fox sources. “Everything was about Gabe Sherman.” … Ailes designated Lewis as Sherman’s point of contact at the network.
Gawker’s source also said that Fox’s PR department had been divided over how to respond to Sherman, with some feeling that he should be given the silent treatment while Lewis and others wanted to engage.
Quote:
“People in the first camp would say things like, ‘Mention the words Gabe and Sherman and you’re fired,’ while people in the second camp were more like, ‘Let’s talk with him,’” the executive contended. “The day the first camp won Roger over was the day Brian became an enormous liability.”
What dirt did the aide have, and was it on Roger Ailes or Fox News itself?So while Lewis may not have had “seriously damaging information” about Ailes,” clearly he had something Ailes didn’t want divulged. Sadly, we will probably never know what.
On the other hand, maybe Lewis had already revealed the worst of it to Sherman before getting fired.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what’s in Sherman’s book.
A similar version of this post appeared on
News Hounds.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/13/fox-news-pays-hush-money/
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