Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and network in final talks on exit
Kelly will come to the end of her current contract next year and has indicated that she may leave. Host Bill O’Reilly has talked about retirement, meaning Fox could lose its two biggest draws, as well as its chief executive and guiding visionary.
It’s unclear who among Fox’s managers, a cadre highly loyal to Ailes, might depart, as well.
.. If Carlson and other female employees of the network are to be believed, Ailes was a serial harasser.
.. Carlson’s lawyer, Nancy Erika Smith, told The Washington Post on Tuesday that 20 women have contacted her law firm with allegations of harassment by Ailes.
.. Ailes also stocked Fox News’s ranks with attractive blond female news readers and positioned them on news sets with their bare legs exposed.
.. He was a media consultant for three successful Republican presidential candidates — Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush