Roger Ailes Caught Spying on the Reporters at His Small-Town Newspaper

[Swede]

The small-town newspapers in New York's Hudson Valley that Fox News chief Roger Ailes owns with his wife Elizabeth are in a staff revolt after employees caught Ailes spying on them with News Corp. security goons.

In 2008, Roger Ailes purchased the Putnam County News and Recorder in rustic Putnam County, New York to start feathering his retirement nest. The idea was that he and Elizabeth would retire to their 9,000-square-foot redoubt in nearby Garrison, N.Y., and Roger would live out his days as the gentleman publisher of a sleepy small-town newspaper. (He bought another paper, the Putnam County Courier, a year later.)

But it was not to be. Ailes—who installed Elizabeth as the day-to-day manager of the papers while he finishes his tenure at Fox News Channel—has run the papers with the singularly paranoid and abusive management style he brings to all his projects, resulting in the defection of his hand-picked editor and two top reporters earlier this month after Ailes told them he'd had them followed, and their private conversations surveilled, to catch them saying mean things about him. The spying followed years of intense weirdness between the editor and the Aileses, who once asked him to personally stop a break-in at their home and who implied that, after Roger's death, he'd be expected to replace him in their marriage.

http://gawker.com/#!5793012/roger-ailes-caught-spying-on-the-reporters-at-his-small+town-newspaper

[rfranklin]

1. They are sick, sick people...

but then again, they are Republicans.

[monmouth]

2. As bad as all of this implies, to be expected to replace Ailes in the

marriage after Ailes' death is the horror here. Dear gawd, what does a person have to do to keep a job??? (sarc.)

[aquart]

3. Head of Fox reading employee emails in America?

Naturally, it would never occur to him to hack anyone else's emails.

Has the scandal finally jumped the Pond?

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicon Family Cesspool Values

As usual.

[pacalo]

5. When someone is paranoid to the point that he's obsessed with what others are

saying about him behind his back, that person must be guilty of a lot of wrongdoing.

[Octafish]

6. It's perfectly within his rights as a fascist.

Fascism: It's the new normal.

[calimary]

7. Hey - bill o'reilly once threatened a listener with sending "Fox Security" after him

because he dared to utter the name "Olbermann" on a call to o'reilly's show.

My husband and I have laughed about the sheer preposterousness of that ever since. But this does make me think back and wonder. Is this their idea of "Fox Security"? So they're running their own little private police state here, maybe?

Oh forcryingoutloud!

:eyes:

Btw - pacalo upthread makes a really good point. If he's so paranoid that he suspects everybody around him must be up to something, that should be a very loud signal that HE TOO is up to something. Why would you immediately go there about somebody else, if you're not already deep down in there yourself? Good reason to be suspicious, just like everything else roger ailes is up to.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. But none of this matters, since Ailes is a Randian Producer

So he can ask anything of his employees, and they are just supposed to snap to it without question.

[Snoutport]

9. legally reading email? hmmmmm...email hacking has been going on in the UK

at murdoch's papers (phone and emails). This article buries the real nugget. Fox employees are hacking emails in the states. :0)

[Ozymanithrax]

10. So spying on people in England wasn't just a one time Fox type thing...

Who'd a thunk???