Fox News Turns Vicious Against Former Insider

"Fox News honcho Roger Ailes has fired his right-hand man Brian Lewis for unspecified financial issues and "multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract."

Lewis, a veteran of the cable news channel, had been a top executive since Ailes founded the powerful network 17 years ago, most recently serving as executive vice president of corporate communications."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

Read more here from MARIANNE GARVEY, BRIAN NIEMIETZ AND LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT / NY Daily News:

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[HalfDemonInuyasha]

I don't think they realize that the more they keep trying to deny, the more people are going to pay attention and probably believe what will be said.

[thefool]

I never read books like that, but I may just have to check that one out from the library.

[ssuuppeerrbbooyy]

Riiight. Because not reporting on Fox News for 20 minutes each week would end their total 600 minutes of a political weekly program.

[HalfDemonInuyasha]

They do show both sides...their hateful side and their greedy side!

[ldchappell]

I'm aware of Goosebumps. They are the all-time best-selling book series for children, with at least 62 titles and 200 million copies in print.. I work at the San Francisco Public Library.

[davisgreen]

The end of Fox News???.. I could only wish!!

[das]

ya that and the slander anyone who speaks out against you. diminish their role in your org and call.them a liar playbook

[Dastreus]

No they don't. They show one side, and a mockery of the other side.

[Magenta]

Their ratings are actually down and I look forward to the day when people just tune off completely. Get away from this fricking boob tube.

[theschof]

I was gonna read the comments, but I was afraid I would get sucked into the vortex of stupidity...

[KieranVFX]

Why do they call it "Fox News"? It should clearly be called "Fox Comedy".

[Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

It's like hearing all the officers on a ship screaming, "Brace!" as they wait for the torpedoes.

[kmikl]

Yeah. That's about the long and short of it.

[LibsRockU]

Good point! The mind-game centers around anesthetizing peoples feelings as mission #1...It all boils down from there.

[MikeandKathleen]

The only reading I look forward to doing where Brian Lewis tell-all book about Faux News is concerned is the lampponing it'll get in the customer reviews section over on Amazon.

[KesselRunner]

Whenever I see Roger Ailes all I can think of is One thing:

"Gaston... a bucket for Monsieur."

[dangerouslytalented]

It's like that all over newscorp. They have everybodys details, and if you cross Rupert or one of his deputies, you will have hell descend on you. Not only if you are working there, but if you cross him in any capacity. When teenage soprano Charlotte Church wanted to actually get paid for singing at Rupert's wedding, his tabloids started publishing all kinds of salacious stuff about her, even when she was underage.

[RedXlV]

Should have occurred to Ailes that this guy knows too much to safely fire.

[doire]

"They might go more right wing, " what!! You mean there's something to the right of fascism?

[MikeandKathleen]

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

R.I.P. Gonzo -- No one said it better and wonderfully weirder than you.