Any ideas why they fired Shep when they did? His ratings were horrible for a long time but they’d put up with that for years. I am sure the office politics are toxic at Fox and they all deserve the misery.
his supposedly quit - he was very close to roger ailes and respected him enough to stay in line (he was also smart enough to know where the lines were that ailes did not want crossed). Ailes was such a huge personality force at fox that the whole place was pretty much in lock step with him - i assume the janitors were going around repeating ailes talking points. you have huge egos in play, big alpha personalities but they all were smart enough to never challenge him. Ailes' sudden departure left people who had been repressed for years suddenly wanting to flex their egos and the best way to do that is to assert your independence. I think Shep saw himself being rebellious against primetime as a big "look at me" moment to make it look like he was the adult in the room. He found some success, so them it became exaggerated. But don't forget, the new "leadership" were all minted in the school of Rager Ailes, so they most likely expected the same level of lockstep loyalty that everyone else gave Roger. It is logical to assume that some major head butting resulted in a breakdown. This is all speculation on my part.
Rupert has always been right of center. But that Australian kinda conservatism that kinda aligns to US conservatism but has some big gaps. But when a man is printing $B bills for you you kinda just let him keep doing that.
Any ideas why they fired Shep when they did? His ratings were horrible for a long time but they’d put up with that for years. I am sure the office politics are toxic at Fox and they all deserve the misery.
his supposedly quit - he was very close to roger ailes and respected him enough to stay in line (he was also smart enough to know where the lines were that ailes did not want crossed). Ailes was such a huge personality force at fox that the whole place was pretty much in lock step with him - i assume the janitors were going around repeating ailes talking points. you have huge egos in play, big alpha personalities but they all were smart enough to never challenge him. Ailes' sudden departure left people who had been repressed for years suddenly wanting to flex their egos and the best way to do that is to assert your independence. I think Shep saw himself being rebellious against primetime as a big "look at me" moment to make it look like he was the adult in the room. He found some success, so them it became exaggerated. But don't forget, the new "leadership" were all minted in the school of Rager Ailes, so they most likely expected the same level of lockstep loyalty that everyone else gave Roger. It is logical to assume that some major head butting resulted in a breakdown. This is all speculation on my part.
Some interesting POV. Ailes probably kept the Murdochs on the conservative line, too, by sheer force of personality.
Rupert has always been right of center. But that Australian kinda conservatism that kinda aligns to US conservatism but has some big gaps. But when a man is printing $B bills for you you kinda just let him keep doing that.