Greta Van Susteren defends Fox: A 'network should never be defined by a handful with bad behavior'

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Source: The Hill

Former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren defended her former network home on Wednesday, saying in a Facebook post that a "network should never be defined by a handful with bad behavior."

Van Susteren appears to be referring to the recent suspension of host Eric Bolling, who on Saturday was suspended pending an investigation into lewd messages he is accused of sending to multiple female coworkers. And top-rated host Bill O'Reilly was ousted in April, shortly after a New York Times report that he paid $13 million to five different women who accused him of sexual harassment.

"While it was time for me to move on, and I have, I do now hate reading the articles about Fox," Van Susteren, who was with Fox from 2002 to 2016 before briefly working for MSNBC, wrote on her Facebook page.

"None of the articles matches my experience there. I worked in the D.C. Bureau of a very large corporation with offices around the world," the 63-year-old former defense attorney continued. "I had 14 1/2 years at Fox News where I was given a platform to do my best work, given the resources to do my best work and no one ever told me what to say or do."

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/345902-greta-defends-fox-a-network-should-never-be-defined-by-a-handful-with-bad

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[NastyRiffraff]

1. I wish she'd just go back to Fox

where she belongs. MSNBC isn't a good fit for her.

[RhodeIslandOne]

2. She's gone from MSNBC n/m

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Wow, I didn't know that

I never watched here there so I didn't know she was gone.

[csziggy]

16. Now there is a new show called The Beat with Ari Melber

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-ari-melber

It is much more informative.

[jmowreader]

4. Which leads to the next question

How many rotten apples do we have to pull out before we pronounce the whole box bad?

[Raine1967]

5. HER BOSS was the one with bad behavior,

Roger Ailes was the fish with the rotten head, the rot ran downhill.

Jeebus.

[Mike Nelson]

6. I consider myself...

...to be relatively intelligent in comparison to Greta...

I see a more distinguished than average "handful" at FOX. I would also not consider Greta a candidate for the "experience" of the women harassed, exploited and assaulted.

I guess I must be a lot smarter than Greta...

[SharonAnn]

7. Sorry, I think an organization should be known for its cultural behavior

especially that of of executives and other people within the organization that have power.

If bad behavior occurs over time, is complained about, and is not corrected then the organization owns it.

[Scalded Nun]

8. I do not judge Fox by the sexual misdeeds of some of its employees

That is but a symptom.

Fox is diseased to the core, infected with corruption, rot and a reprehensible disregard for humanity.

I judge them by that.

[Rustyeye77]

9. IOW

" Pleeeeease give me my job back !!!"

[BumRushDaShow]

12. THIS

[PatSeg]

10. Yeah well, Greta

That is a HUGE handful then, as it appears such behavior is/was the rule not the exception.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. OK Greta. I'll Let You Have Your Way

The network is defined by being willfully ignorant liars who have polluted the public discourse with their approach to "news".

Is that better, Greta?

[BigmanPigman]

13. Sounds like she is looking for a new position from her old employer

since MSNBC dumped her with about 3 hours notice.

[spiderpig]

14. And we should care what she thinks, why?

Boring and irrelevant. Buh-bye!

[Doug the Dem]

15. Handful?

Well, that "hand" "filled" the screen every day!