Fox News chief accused of spying on his newspaper's editor

[Judi Lynn]

Fox News chief accused of spying on his newspaper's editor

Many stories involving Fox News tend to be bizarre. The latest, involving the channel's chief executive, Roger Ailes, is a classic example.

He and his wife, Elizabeth, own a newspaper, the Putnam County News and Recorder, near their up-state home in New York's rustic Hudson Valley.

Now staff are in revolt after Ailes reportedly admitted to spying on the editor, Joe Lindsley, and two reporters - T.J. Haley and Carli-Rae Panny.

The trio resigned last month, claiming that Ailes accused them of bad-mouthing him and his wife, who is the paper's day-to-day manager. He is then alleged to have told them he had had them followed, and their private conversations surveilled.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/apr/19/fox-news-us-press-publishing

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1. When the rats feed upon themselves

it's delicious.....

[KharmaTrain]

2. Tie This Into The Faux Scandal In England...

Seems that snooping on employees is a condition for employ in Murdoch's paranoid universe. The pisser here is depending on how he was snooping it could be all legal. I had an employer secretly tape employees and later fired several for things he heard on the tapes. The fired employees tried to sue but lost the case as he had the right to operate the cameras in his own business/property...no need to warn others that he was doing it. Bottom line is when you're working for someone else you're rights are limited...and privacy is almost non-existant.

Now if Ailes tapped their home phones or did things outside the office...that's another story and yes, very illegal. Lets see how this scandal develops...