Roger Ailes was reportedly forced out of Fox News by Rupert Murdoch’s Trump-hating son. Gabriel Sherman, whom Slate describes as “the nation’s foremost Fox News beat reporter,” yesterday told Slate: “James Murdoch is, by my reporting, extremely turned off and horrified by the concept of a Trump presidency, and he sees the politics of the right-wing populism fueled by Fox News as a catalyst... 

I don’t have too much love for Fox News, as I think it has basically pushed the right-wing of America leftward by promoting memes like “I don’t have any problem with gay people, I just don’t think they should be allowed to get married” and “I have no problem with mass immigration from Africa and India, I just don’t want illegal Mexican immigration” and “most Muslims are good people... 

There appears to be a coup going down at Fox News seeking to oust Roger Ailes. Form the New York Times: Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News appears to be over. Mr. Ailes and 21st Century Fox, Fox News’s parent company, are in the advanced stages of discussions that would lead to his departure as chairman, Susan Estrich, one of Mr. Ailes’s lawyers, said in an interview on Tuesday. The...