Post by Jaga on Sept 21, 2019 3:49:16 GMT -7
it was represented by Roger Ailes, their CEU who was a sexual preditor and he was also representing one sided pro-conservative views.
the conservative views and harassing women should be exclusive, but not on Fox.
www.newshounds.us/alisyn_camerota_some_fox_personalities_pretend_like_trump_092019
In a frank interview with The Hollywood Reporter, ex-Fox News anchor Alisyn Camerota revealed that the shoddy charade behind Fox News includes some of her former colleagues cheerleading Trump merely because they “always knew where their bread was buttered.” She also suggests she might well be doing the same thing had she remained.
Camerota, now a CNN anchor, repeatedly noted that she still has friends at Fox and doesn’t want to insult anyone or hurt their feelings there. But she was also candid about Fox in a way I have yet to see or hear from any other former anchor.
For example, although Fox personalities often insist nobody tells them what to say, Camerota makes it clear this was definitely not the case for her. When asked to compare working at CNN with working at Fox, she called it “night and day.”
“I never, ever have had Jeff Zucker tell me what I need to say. Never. And with Roger [Ailes] that was a weekly occurrence.”
She also called out the difference in journalistic standards. “CNN is built on them,” Camerota said, “At Fox, nobody ever asked me for a second source. Nobody ever mentioned it.”
Interviewer Jeremy Barr brought up “some Fox News opinion stars who didn’t always like Trump.” Barr didn’t name names but he could have been thinking of Greg Gutfeld and Katie Pavlich, to name two. Camerota’s response, however unintentional, couldn’t have been more damning:
“I think that a lot of people at Fox, whether or not they were truly conservatives or truly right wingers, always knew where their bread was buttered. And now the whole loaf is just so buttered up with Trump love. Obviously, it's just a decision that people have made to be all in.”
Camerota further suggested that Fox personalities will change their “bedrock principles” to suit the politics once Trump is out of office.
“Without Donald Trump they will go back to hating the issues of eminent domain and hating the deficit and hating cozying on up to dictators and hating what President Trump said at Helsinki. They'll go back to that immediately if Donald Trump isn't around anymore. This is a strange aberration where they have forgotten those bedrock principles that they used to believe in.”
But Camerota didn’t spare herself. She said she “wrestled” all the time with “[t] rying to keep my job while trying to also preserve my own ethics and moral compass.” Later, she quipped, “if I were still at Fox, I would be Secretary of State.”
I highly recommend the entire interview.
I also recommend Camerota’s 2017 interview in which she opened up about being sexually harassed at Fox News (not discussed in the THR interview). It’s below, via Crooks and Liars.
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Kevin Koster commented 1 hour ago · Flag
I do have pity for Camerota, and really for anyone who takes the Fox News paycheck and then realizes too late that they’ve torpedoed their journalism career. But nobody forced her to do this. Nobody forced her to lie on behalf of angry Right Wingers like Roger Ailes. Nobody forced her to inflict propaganda on a daily and hourly basis for years. She chose this, and therefore she owns the consequences for herself.
And she’s even saying that she could have continued the lying and propagandizing, and been further rewarded than she already has been. So while she says she was “wrestling” with her conscience, this wasn’t that tremendous of a struggle, was it? It wasn’t a hard choice. She could have stood up, called out the lies for what they were, and walked out of the building. But she didn’t do that. She just took the paycheck and kept saying and doing what Roger Ailes and the Fox News bunch told her to do.
I realize that people like Camerota and Carl Cameron are desperately trying to distance themselves from their actions while at Fox News, but the hours and hours of tape of their conduct speak for themselves. And I’m not saying that they can’t apologize and ask for some kind of forgiveness – that’s completely appropriate and it would be cruel to refuse that pity upon them. But they don’t get to walk their conduct back and act like they really didn’t mean it after all.
This is exactly the scenario we are likely to see at the end of this miserable epoch of our history, hopefully at the end of 2020 if the swing state Dems have learned their lesson about showing up to vote. We’ll see a bunch of Right Wing pundits and personalities distancing themselves from the Pence White House and saying “You know, I never supported the way they did _____” or “You know I never liked the way they always called people _____”, etc. And if we are to have a sane and civil society, those walkbacks must immediately be countered with. “NO. YOU LIED AND SAID BIGOTED THINGS. YOU TRIED TO BULLY PEOPLE WHILE YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. NOW YOU CAN LIVE IN YOUR SHAME.”
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John McKee commented 13 hours ago · Flag
Always instinctively liked her, even when she was (obviously uncomfortably) having to share the stage with the execrable Doucy and the other Fox’n’Fiends. The Fox ‘News’ diaspora (Alisyn, Major Garret, Carl Cameron, Dave Briggs et al) must have a million stories to share when they get together for drinkies.
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Richard Santalone commented 19 hours ago · Flag
Once again, it’s time to post these ancient words from the Bible:
“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other or be attentive to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon”
In the same way, in the world of journalism, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE for one to serve both BIG $$$$ (especially “Goebbels” Murdoch’s BIG $$$$) and the American people’s right to know.
the conservative views and harassing women should be exclusive, but not on Fox.
www.newshounds.us/alisyn_camerota_some_fox_personalities_pretend_like_trump_092019
In a frank interview with The Hollywood Reporter, ex-Fox News anchor Alisyn Camerota revealed that the shoddy charade behind Fox News includes some of her former colleagues cheerleading Trump merely because they “always knew where their bread was buttered.” She also suggests she might well be doing the same thing had she remained.
Camerota, now a CNN anchor, repeatedly noted that she still has friends at Fox and doesn’t want to insult anyone or hurt their feelings there. But she was also candid about Fox in a way I have yet to see or hear from any other former anchor.
For example, although Fox personalities often insist nobody tells them what to say, Camerota makes it clear this was definitely not the case for her. When asked to compare working at CNN with working at Fox, she called it “night and day.”
“I never, ever have had Jeff Zucker tell me what I need to say. Never. And with Roger [Ailes] that was a weekly occurrence.”
She also called out the difference in journalistic standards. “CNN is built on them,” Camerota said, “At Fox, nobody ever asked me for a second source. Nobody ever mentioned it.”
Interviewer Jeremy Barr brought up “some Fox News opinion stars who didn’t always like Trump.” Barr didn’t name names but he could have been thinking of Greg Gutfeld and Katie Pavlich, to name two. Camerota’s response, however unintentional, couldn’t have been more damning:
“I think that a lot of people at Fox, whether or not they were truly conservatives or truly right wingers, always knew where their bread was buttered. And now the whole loaf is just so buttered up with Trump love. Obviously, it's just a decision that people have made to be all in.”
Camerota further suggested that Fox personalities will change their “bedrock principles” to suit the politics once Trump is out of office.
“Without Donald Trump they will go back to hating the issues of eminent domain and hating the deficit and hating cozying on up to dictators and hating what President Trump said at Helsinki. They'll go back to that immediately if Donald Trump isn't around anymore. This is a strange aberration where they have forgotten those bedrock principles that they used to believe in.”
But Camerota didn’t spare herself. She said she “wrestled” all the time with “[t] rying to keep my job while trying to also preserve my own ethics and moral compass.” Later, she quipped, “if I were still at Fox, I would be Secretary of State.”
I highly recommend the entire interview.
I also recommend Camerota’s 2017 interview in which she opened up about being sexually harassed at Fox News (not discussed in the THR interview). It’s below, via Crooks and Liars.
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Kevin Koster commented 1 hour ago · Flag
I do have pity for Camerota, and really for anyone who takes the Fox News paycheck and then realizes too late that they’ve torpedoed their journalism career. But nobody forced her to do this. Nobody forced her to lie on behalf of angry Right Wingers like Roger Ailes. Nobody forced her to inflict propaganda on a daily and hourly basis for years. She chose this, and therefore she owns the consequences for herself.
And she’s even saying that she could have continued the lying and propagandizing, and been further rewarded than she already has been. So while she says she was “wrestling” with her conscience, this wasn’t that tremendous of a struggle, was it? It wasn’t a hard choice. She could have stood up, called out the lies for what they were, and walked out of the building. But she didn’t do that. She just took the paycheck and kept saying and doing what Roger Ailes and the Fox News bunch told her to do.
I realize that people like Camerota and Carl Cameron are desperately trying to distance themselves from their actions while at Fox News, but the hours and hours of tape of their conduct speak for themselves. And I’m not saying that they can’t apologize and ask for some kind of forgiveness – that’s completely appropriate and it would be cruel to refuse that pity upon them. But they don’t get to walk their conduct back and act like they really didn’t mean it after all.
This is exactly the scenario we are likely to see at the end of this miserable epoch of our history, hopefully at the end of 2020 if the swing state Dems have learned their lesson about showing up to vote. We’ll see a bunch of Right Wing pundits and personalities distancing themselves from the Pence White House and saying “You know, I never supported the way they did _____” or “You know I never liked the way they always called people _____”, etc. And if we are to have a sane and civil society, those walkbacks must immediately be countered with. “NO. YOU LIED AND SAID BIGOTED THINGS. YOU TRIED TO BULLY PEOPLE WHILE YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. NOW YOU CAN LIVE IN YOUR SHAME.”
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John McKee commented 13 hours ago · Flag
Always instinctively liked her, even when she was (obviously uncomfortably) having to share the stage with the execrable Doucy and the other Fox’n’Fiends. The Fox ‘News’ diaspora (Alisyn, Major Garret, Carl Cameron, Dave Briggs et al) must have a million stories to share when they get together for drinkies.
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Richard Santalone commented 19 hours ago · Flag
Once again, it’s time to post these ancient words from the Bible:
“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other or be attentive to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon”
In the same way, in the world of journalism, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE for one to serve both BIG $$$$ (especially “Goebbels” Murdoch’s BIG $$$$) and the American people’s right to know.
