When Ailes Is Out, Will Murdoch’s Sons Clean the Fox House?
by Spocko
One of the things that I’ve learned is that corporations don’t like to associate their brands with certain repugnant behaviors and activities.
When these behaviors are brought to the attention of the public, the corporation needs to distance themselves from the person or persons engaged in them.
How a corporation goes about showing their investors they are “taking actions” varies depending on how little they believe they can get away with.
“Alies is out. No more sexual harassing here! Problem solved. Let’s talk about Bill Clinton and the woman who stood by him while he was in the White House! What does that say about her?”
And the show in show business goes on. As in “show me the money.” If the NewsCorp shareholders believe that canning Ailes is enough to stop the bad PR they won’t demand more action.
So how do we convince the shareholders it’s not enough? By encouraging more stories from the survivors, and then not attacking them for failing to speak up sooner.
We could also ask other media outlets to do some research, Gawker has nothing more to lose. But maybe they won’t. Then we should look for stories of repugnant activities, since that door is now cracked open. I suggest that we also look for people engaging in criminal acts at Fox News.
Because dollars to doughnuts, when you turn over the rock of Fox News you will find illegal acts.
Let the dirt digging begin!