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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 07:57 AM Oct 2017

'Tyrant' Laura Ingraham Already Terrifying Fox News Staffers--and Her Show Hasn't Even Aired Yet

Sources say that Fox News staffers are dreading working for, what one person called, a ‘known tyrant.’

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
10.22.17 9:00 PM ET

When conservative author and talk radio host Laura Ingraham sits down in the anchor chair on Oct. 30 for the first time as a host on Fox News’ evening lineup, the cable network will be making a multi-prong bet.

The first is that its audience will gladly stomach another evening hour of ardent Donald Trump boosterism. The second is that someone who’s spent the much of her career in radio can translate to television. But the third, and perhaps biggest, gamble is that the notoriously combative and difficult-to-work-with Ingraham can run a functioning show.

Already, there are signs of trouble.

A number of Fox staffers are dreading the possibility of working for Ingraham, who, even among the healthy egos that populate America’s cable newsrooms, has built a reputation as overbearing.

According to numerous sources, Ingraham has been, occasionally, a verbally abusive boss, who will not hesitate to scream at employees if something goes awry. Two former employees of her radio show recounted to The Daily Beast separate instances of Ingraham hurling objects at staff members in displeasure. Though Fox declined to address most specific examples of her conduct, the channel issued a blanket denial of such allegations.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingrahams-show-on-fox-news-hasnt-aired-and-its-already-causing-problems

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'Tyrant' Laura Ingraham Already Terrifying Fox News Staffers--and Her Show Hasn't Even Aired Yet (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
There was a time Id sympathize with the Fox staffers Vogon_Glory Oct 2017 #1
It is a network packed to the rafters with egomaniacal hacks Rob H. Oct 2017 #2
Kind of like White House staff and Cabinet members, then? hatrack Oct 2017 #3
It's Fox News, would you expect anything different? Initech Oct 2017 #4

Rob H.

(5,352 posts)
2. It is a network packed to the rafters with egomaniacal hacks
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 08:08 AM
Oct 2017

No one who wants to be taken seriously as a journalist would ever go anywhere near that place. Did Fox staffers really expect Ingraham would be different?

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
3. Kind of like White House staff and Cabinet members, then?
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 08:10 AM
Oct 2017

They, too, knew in advance what they would get.

Fuck them.

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