overshadowed and pressured by the prime time opinion hosts the prime time is where the money is a few years ago fox got rid of fair imbalance as their slogan and went to most trusted which goes to the question of their audience i think they ve been backing away from journalism for a few years now. they ve been backing away from the journalism that roger ales tried to create to counter balance the opinion side you can see in those e-mails and texts, there was no search for the truth. there was no what s true here and how to get it to our viewers. it was what can we say without ticking off the people who watch? that was always front of mind. and when it doesn t include calling the election that s when they know they re in trouble yeah, and to have built this firsten class election machinery to call the election accurately and then to throw it under the bus or seek to, to have prime time hosts calling for the firing of the white house
judge wants to say i don t need a jury to hear this anymore. another question (u came from the judge today, the lawyersq skd would say we re going to take it out of the jury s hands.76o if the jury gets it it wout8 be april 17th andlp 1800 juror questionnaires have already been sent out. this is abby grossberg. i read through her filing. it was a litany. roger ales wasn t even doing his job. all he was doing was chasing women around fox studios trying toxd make them have sex with hi. she talked ant the atmosphere she faced there. there are texts where she talked about the audience didn t wante to hear a peaceful transition. 3 day, this is according to her lawsuit, misse1 grossberg discovered theok show was
2020 election, new questions are being raised tonight about who will take the fall. if you re looking for someone to be forced to walk the plank as a measure of public accountability for this, it s sure not going to be rupert murdoch himself, and it s very unlikely to be his son loughlin murdoch. so who? new questions are being raised of a fox executive named suzan scott. very troubled successor to roger ales, that she was the executioner to all this stuff. reporter: scott was named by forbes magazine in 2021 as one of the 100 most powerful women in media and entertainment. as fox news takes more heat over some of the discovery some of the elections top workers knew the election wasn t stolen from donald trump and proclaimed it was
but we now have a situation where one of the most prominent news outlets in america has been caught in a blatant lie. what s that say about where we are in journalism today in the united states? and beyond the lie what s so fascinating is the one thing they got really right, they called arizona before anyone else on election night. they got that call right. rather than being proud of that, they viewed that internally as a complete catastrophe. the one thing they recorded accurately is a disaster for them. and meanwhile they are committed to this narrative they all openly scorned. i think roger ales was a despicable man in a lot of ways but he was committed to some journalism integrity. with him gone and you have just the profit motive, just the entertainment motive, just the
structure at a critical time. how did rupert murdoch deal with that? the fascinating thing and you ll see it play out tonight is the two sons james and locklin who were rivals for their father s throne agreed on one thing. they had both taken their scraps with roger ales and both believed he had to go for obvious reasons of what he was accused of in these scandals. rupert on the other hand had a very different history with roger so that was the tension. and in the end i don t think that rupert murdoch would have allowed roger ales to leave without some kind of package like the one roger got. we also see this week the evolution of rupert murdoch s relationship with former president trump. in 2015 murdock as we know is critical of trump but then quickly realizes that strategy isn t the best for business. well, it s a continuing as your viewers know paradox or complication in this