http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-class-action-lawsuit-racial-discrimination/
>An expanded lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Fox News Channel of racial discrimination “that appears more akin to Plantation-style management than a modern-day work environment.”
>The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court, adds eight former and current Fox employees to a case involving three former Fox workers and their accusations against a since-fired Fox financial executive. It also expands the case to include Dianne Brandi, Fox’s chief counsel.
>Speaking at a news conference Wednesday morning, Kelly Wright, an on-air Fox News personality and a plaintiff in the case, said he was joining the lawsuit because of “indefensible and inexcusable” alleged discrimination across departments at the network.
>“We have a culture of systemic and institutional racial bias,” Wright said. “I can no longer sit in silence.”
>Wright is the only on-air black anchor at the network, according to his attorney Douglas Wigdor. Wigdor said he expects additional plaintiffs to join the lawsuit.
>Fox News said it vehemently denies the allegations, calling them “copycat complaints.” It said Brandi denies the claims against her.
>“The allegations -- and we must remember they’re allegations -- show a systemic, pervasive problem in Fox News culture,”CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman said on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday, adding the class-action lawsuit “has incredible potential to really hurt Fox News’ bottom line.”
>The original lawsuit was filed in late March by two black women who worked in the network’s payroll department, and a third colleague later joined it. The expanded lawsuit, incorporating the other employees, seeks unspecified compensatory damages and an elimination of unlawful employment practices at Fox.
>The workers allege that their complaints about the actions of Judith Slater, the fired former comptroller, went unanswered for years. They say Brandi told them it was because Slater “knew too much” about former Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and top-rated host Bill O’Reilly, who have been ousted over the past year because of sexual-harassment accusations.
>A lawyer for Slater, Catherine Foti, said the actions against Slater are meritless and frivolous. She said “all claims of racial discrimination against Ms. Slater are completely false.”
>Wright said he’d been effectively sidelined and asked to perform the role of a Jim Crow, an insulting slang term to refer to a black man, according to the lawsuit. Wright said O’Reilly, who’s white, refused to show a piece Wright had prepared after racial protests in Ferguson, Missouri, because they showed blacks in too positive a light.
>A former employee, Musfiq Rahman, a dark-skinned Bangladeshi, said he was punished after mistakenly walking into Ailes’ office by no longer being allowed on Ailes’ floor without an escort.
>Mark LeGrier, a former financial employee who’s black, said he was subjected to retaliation when he complained to Brandi about Slater’s behavior.
>“When it comes to racial discrimination, 21st Century Fox has been operating as if it should be called 18th Century Fox,” said Wigdor, the attorney for Wright.
>Meanwhile, Nielsen company ratings showed that Tucker Carlson moved into O’Reilly’s old time slot at Fox News on Monday night and took over his status as the most-watched host in cable news -- at least for a night.
>O’Reilly, who hosted “The O’Reilly Factor,” was fired by Fox last week following news about Fox settling sexual-harassment cases involving him for millions of dollars. He has denied the allegations.
>Nielsen said Carlson’s first night at 8 p.m. attracted 3.17 million viewers, beating the combined audience of MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who reached 1.52 million viewers, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who reached 1 million.
>Carlson did not beat O’Reilly’s nearly 4 million average during the first three months of the year. Carlson had averaged 3.3 million in the 9 p.m. time slot following O’Reilly.
Jeez they are really coming out of the woodwork now against FNC. I'm sure they will blame it on Ailes, pay them and move on.
So some random employee allegedly used a cuss word. Why punish the entire company and innocent shareholders?
It's another push from the radical left to try and silence their opposition. They got Bill on sex charges, now they're going for the rest on racism.
They won't stop until the only voice remaining is theirs.
>>135330
Because the only right if center news network shouldn't exist in the globalist utopia
>>135338
Oh get over yourself. The "radical left" couldn't agree on how to make a sandwich, much less on some agenda against a major media corporation. The people you are really angry at are the sponsors which pulled out of their advertising contracts with 21st century fox corporation over rumors.
>>135338
true enough.
alas, the right wing will have to stop responding to complaints of sexual harassment with "boys will be boys"
>>135342
They agree on literally everything
>>135342
>pulled out of their advertising contracts with 21st century fox corporation over rumors.
When rumors are silenced by multi-million-dollar settlements with a strict NDA, there is zero possibility of confirmation in the public sphere (at least without getting sued) except in the court of public and consumer opinion. When you have a pattern of both behavior and unargued lawsuits like in Bill's case (pick a fuckin' Bill -- liberal or conservative shouldn't matter here) the end result cannot be just to sit without judgement or decision and wait until the settling party dies and the truth can be legally unsealed.
>>135324
Fox news is the world wide known right wing side of US-American journalism. How dumb a PoC do you have to be to think the people: running, operating, financing it would be SJW's? Why would a black person work for Fox News? It is like a feminist applying for a job at the "Playboy". Fox News is for Republicans by Republicans and PoC's just don't feature into their demografics, why are people angry about this? It is like someone whatching a GayPrideParade and getting angry about the lack of Hetero-normative-Cis-representation.
>>135357
No they don't.
t. leftist
>>135376
The right is not exclusively white or straight. That's a strawman setup. Especially poignant since Trump pulled more minorities this recent election than the last 4 republican candidates.
I also doubt Fox, a professional news org, is rolling in racism and prejudice. That's just not consistent with its history and at its base, its just shitty public relations even if they were.
>>135324
Fuck, anything to take them down.
>>135342
They don't all need to think the same so long as they have a shared enemy and mob mentality.
>>135324
>Fox is racist
That's impossible
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In order to prevent racism and sexism we need to stop hiring minorities and women
If we protect a single person, isn't it worth the sacrifice?
FNN been in a lot of shit lately.
What a coincidence
>>135324
>Fox News is racist
What an unprecedented and shocking turn of events!