Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report has announced that Roger Ailes, former CEO of Fox News, has died three days after his 77th birthday. A statement from Ailes’ wife Elizabeth, posted on the Drudge Report, reads: I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning. Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. He was... 

Fox News Channel co-president Bill Shine is stepping down in the wake of yet another sexual harassment scandal. After 21 years, Shine will be partially replaced by the network’s highest ranking female executive. Shine, who had been with Fox News since its inception, will leave after helping the media company through a transition over the next couple of months, a memo sent to employees Monday by... 

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... 

GOP front-runner Donald Trump says he will skip the next Republican debate as the Iowa caucuses approach. “I probably won’t be doing the debate. I’m going to have something else in Iowa,” said the billionaire former reality TV star at a news conference in a high school workout room in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Tuesday. “Let’s see how much money Fox makes without me...