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  • Fox Fires Its Head Of Sports Programming After Involvement In Sexual Harassment Allegations

    Fox Fires Its Head Of Sports Programming After Involvement In Sexual Harassment Allegations

    Sexual harassment Controversies at Rupert Murdoch’s media company are not about to stop. Just a year ago, its Fox News unit in New York was entangled in a sexual harassment scandal. This put the top provider through a tough time for about a year trying to deal with the matter. It hasn’t even taken take a little rest from that, it is again going through another case involving sexual harassment in a different unit.

    Fox Sports believes it made the right move firing one of its controversial officials heading the sports programming segment. Jamie Horowitz’s services will no longer be needed by the company since his act went against the set up regulations.

    The company’s management team according to Latimes has been doing its level best to counter such unprofessional acts. According to people familiar with the matter, Fox saw the great need to carry out investigations of the allegations involving sexual harassment at the work station.

    A number of women at the L.A.-based Fox Sports were interviewed in a bid to investigate Horowitz’s behavior at the workplace. Among those investigated were major personalities working with the media services provider as well as show producers. Those that provided information asked for their identities to be kept anonymous. That was understandable considering the sensitive nature of the controversy.

    Eric Shanks, who is the Fox Sports President, recently wrote an email to the various staff members informing them about the departure of Horowitz. The matter attracted the attention of some top media personalities who reached out to the president requesting him to comment further in relation to the matter.

    In giving his statement he said, “Everyone at Fox Sports, no matter what role we play, or what business, function or show we contribute to — should act with respect and adhere to professional conduct at all times. These values are non-negotiable.”

    The human resources executives at Fox Sports carried out an interview with a one of the production assistants. She told them that Horowitz had at one time indicated much boldness trying to plan a kiss on her lips. It might seem a drastic decision by the company, but it is crucial that we look at the bigger picture.

  • Van Susteren Disappointed After Moving From Fox News to MSNBC

    Van Susteren Disappointed After Moving From Fox News to MSNBC

    Van Susteren, a former Fox News host has been hit below the belt by the loyal MSNBC viewers. She was running the For the Record With Greta show. The cable news network decided to let go of the presenter after its viewers expressed dissatisfaction. Most of them couldn’t see anything special about her apart from being a former Fox News Host.

    The program she had been running according to reports had consistently been receiving lower ratings. Weekend host Ari Melber and the MSNBC chief legal correspondent will be the ones to fill the slot.

    According to Huffingtonpost, MSNBC president Phil Griffin was the official that announced the departure of Van Susteren. He said that they enjoyed working with the anchor and the show team. In late April before the White House Correspondents Dinner, some top news reporters reached out to the news anchor seeking to understand her take on what had been happening in her career life.

    Van Susteren had been quick to point out that she was happy with her new work station. She termed the transition from Fox News seamless. According to her, it was a great thing that she had moved with her staff from Fox News to MSNBC. She appeared optimistic, but it must have been sad for her that matters didn’t turn out like she expected.

    Some people familiar with the matter unleashed some details in relation to the matter, though they preferred to remain anonymous. They disclosed that plans to get rid of the anchor had started some two weeks earlier, but Van Susteren was kept in the dark. The sources said that Melber was the person behind the negotiations.

    CNN has reported that the anchor was making preparations to start her show when she suddenly received the news about her termination. Her husband, who happens to be a trial lawyer that has over the years negotiated the anchor’s contract, revealed that matters related to her termination were under discussion. The most disappointing part was that Van Susteren was denied the chance say goodbye to her viewers.

  • Mixed Reactions Pop Up Following The Firing Of CNN Host Reza Aslan

    Mixed Reactions Pop Up Following The Firing Of CNN Host Reza Aslan

    THEHILL.COM has made the announcement that Sean Hannity of Fox News on Friday made the move to defend Reza Aslan. Sean is said to have defended the former CNN host after blatantly calling President Trump “a piece of s—.”He thinks that it was the wrong move for Trump to have fired him considering that he had moved ahead to apologize.

    This recent development is shifting attention to Reza with a lot of people globally now looking at the matter in detail. In making a statement to his followers, Hannity wrote, “Reza calling the @POTUS a POS is bad form. Calling me the same fair game. I do not think you should be fired. You apologized.”

    A lot has been happening recently with Trump and it goes without saying that this recent move may shake the confidence of a large number of Americans on Trump as their president.

    According to reports, CNN will not continue with the production on the acquired series ‘Believer with Reza Aslan.’ However, the platform through a statement wished Reza together with his production team good luck in their endeavor. It was obvious CNN preferred distancing itself from the matter for reasons best known to it.

    Aslan owes his roots to Iran, and this time around he was the host of CNN’s “Believer” which has always been aired out on a weekly basis on Sunday nights. The 45-year-old religious scholar who is at the same time a top-notch author is said to have proceeded to call President Trump a “man baby” in a tweet. Truth be said, in as much as Trump might have his own weaknesses, most of the Americans saw this as rather extreme and disrespectful to Trump and the presidency.

    Other sources indicate that the tweet was in response to the move by NBC News which is said to have deliberately ignored reporting about Trump sharing a Drudge Report tweet reporting the terrors attacks that recently took place in, on the basis it included unconfirmed details at that particular moment. Aslan remains remorseful and believes he should have chosen his words more wisely.