The drama sweeping over Fox News following the sexual harassment suit filed by Gretchen Carlson against Roger Ailes is turning into a long-running catastrophic public relations event for the network.
New revelations are surfacing every day.
One of the most shocking comes Thursday from Politico which is reporting Ailes once threatened to send someone to rough up New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman during the period in which Sherman was writing a book on Ailes.
Dark arts: Ailes’ black ops tactics against New York magazine reporter and Ailes biographer Gabe Sherman were apparently more menacing than just online smears and negative Google ads. A source close to high-level Fox News executives told Morning Media that during a private conversation with Ailes at an event in the period when Sherman was reporting his 2014 book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” Ailes said to this source, “I know where he lives, and I’m gonna send people to beat the shit out of him.” (A second source within the Fox News orbit confirmed hearing the same account and a third said Ailes has said some version of this before.)
