BREAKING: Fox News Co-President Bill Shine Resigns

The Fox News shake-up continues. According to this, co-president of Fox News– Bill Shine– is OUT. Word has it he was the only executive keeping the network truly fair and balanced. Now, the future of Fox News is in the hands of Rupert Murdoch’s liberal sons…

In a memo to staffers issued Monday, 21st Century Fox co-executive chairman Rupert Murdoch said that Shine had resigned. He is expected to stay on for a few more weeks as part of a transition.

Suzanne Scott, another longtime Fox News executive, will take Shine’s place in steering programming at Fox News, in the role as president of programming. Jay Wallace, an up-and-coming news executive, will become president of news. Jack Abernethy remains as a co-president of Fox News and CEO of the Fox Television Stations group.

“Bill Shine has played a huge role in building Fox News to its present position as the nation’s biggest and most important cable channel in the history of the industry,” Murdoch wrote in a statement. “His contribution to our channel and our country will resonate for many years.”

“While long overdue, we are pleased that 21st Century Fox has taken a step in the right direction by terminating Bill Shine and that our recent court filings apparently influenced that decision,” said Douglas Wigdor, a New York attorney overseeing a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the network. “Much more needs to be done, however, including holding Dianne Brandi accountable for permitting a known racist to prey upon our clients and acknowledging and accepting responsibility for the harm our clients have and continue to suffer.” Brandi is Fox News Channel’s executive vice president of legal and business affairs, and has also been named in some of the litigation currently set against the network.

 

“This doesn’t fix Fox News’ harassment problem. It’s just the most basic accountability the network could have delivered. All you need to do is watch 30 minutes of Fox News’ programming and you can see that harassment of women goes hand in hand with the right-wing ideology at the network’s core,”said Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group. “To truly remedy its culture of harassment, Fox News also needs to change its attitude about women.”

Sean, now that Bill Shine is gone…is it still the end of FNC as we know it? https://t.co/iohMSINDsj

— Yashar (@yashar) May 1, 2017

Bill Shine has resigned as co-president of Fox News. Jay Wallace becomes president for news and Suzanne Scott president for programming

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) May 1, 2017

A week ago, Sean Hannity said if Bill Shine left Fox it would be the “END of Fox News as we know it.” Now Bill Shine has resigned from Fox.

— Makada 🇺🇸 (@_Makada_) May 1, 2017

It’ll be interesting to see how this shapes up…