Another brick in the Fox News wall of scandal came tumbling down on Monday, as network co-president Bill Shine was fired. Shine was Roger Ailes’s right-hand man and Sean Hannity’s former producer.
Gabriel Sherman tweeted the news:
BREAKING: Two sources inside Fox News say Bill Shine is out as of this morning
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 1, 2017
Fox News talent stunned by the news of Shine's exit. "I have no idea what is going one," one host just said
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 1, 2017
In recent days, per source, there was talk among Fox News women about circulating a petition inside the network calling for Shine's firing.
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 1, 2017
According to senior sources, still no word internally about who is replacing Shine
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 1, 2017
Shine was Ailes's righthand guy, and involved in carrying out Ailes's attacks on enemies, including instructing Fox talent to go after me
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 1, 2017
The ramifications of Shine’s dismissal are huge for Fox. Shine was part of the problem that Roger Ailes left behind. He was also Sean Hannity’s former executive producer and was involved in the accusations of sexual harassment against Hannity.
Being that Fox News has the market cornered on conservative cable news viewers, they will be able to coast for a bit, but the reality is that the sexual harassment scandal is slowly destroying the network. The Fox News that was a dominant ratings machine is collapsing.
The more immediate question is whether or not this will signal the end for Sean Hannity at Fox News? If the sexual harassment allegations are true, it is only a matter of time until the last remaining primetime host from 2016 is out.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
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