Scandal-plagued Fox News hit with more lawsuits in U.S. court
Scandal-plagued Fox News hit with more lawsuits in U.S. court
Reuters
By Daniel Wiessner
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Fox News was hit with new sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits on Monday, adding to the catalog of complaints that has rattled the U.S. cable news network and its corporate parent 21st Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O).
New York City lawyer Douglas Wigdor filed lawsuits in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of Kathleen Lee, a Fox News Radio shift editor who says she was sexually harassed and subjected to "unceasing retaliation" for complaining, and Naima Farrow, who maintains she was fired from her job as an accounts payable coordinator after telling supervisors she was pregnant.
In a third case in the same court, Vidya Mann, a Fox News accounts receivable specialist, said she was taken on as a temporary employee but passed over for permanent jobs in favor of white coworkers.
A spokeswoman at Fox News said the company believes the suits are without merit, noting that the company took prompt action and takes all complaints of discrimination seriously.
The new legal claims come as Fox News is already battling a series of lawsuits that led to the resignations of former chief executive Roger Ailes, who died last week, star anchor Bill O'Reilly and network co-president Bill Shine.
Wigdor said he was also representing an unidentified black information technology employee who was subjected to racially insensitive remarks by Bob Beckel, an on-air host who was fired last week, days after the worker complained.
"Despite public relations efforts to the contrary, business at 21st Century Fox continues to operate more akin to 18th Century Fox," Wigdor said in a statement.
Wigdor represents at least 23 current and former Fox News employees with legal claims against the company. Earlier this month, he met officials from the Office of Communications, a British regulatory agency that is currently considering whether to approve 21st Century Fox's proposed takeover of satellite broadcaster Sky.
On Monday, Wigdor sent a letter to the regulator, known as Ofcom, outlining the new legal claims against Fox and claiming the company refused his request to waive confidentiality agreements signed by its employees so they could speak directly to the agency.
(Reporting By Jessica Toonkel; Editing by Tom Brown)
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The new legal claims come as Fox News is already battling a series of lawsuits that led to the resignations of former chief executive Roger Ailes, who died last week, star anchor Bill O'Reilly and network co-president Bill Shine.
And this is the good news for our conservatives. All the other news is about the obstruction of our MAGA big mouth pussy grabbing President who reported on live television today that he NEVER revealed it was Israel to the Russians. He never said the word "Israel" during the meeting. hahahahaha
PJ, since you'll probably not see this anywhere else other than this comment here it is.
CNN Discrimination
While the Fox News suit has grown by one additional employee, the case against CNN may soon become bigger by many multiples.
That's because after the defendants moved for dismissal or at least a more definitive statement about specific allegations, also raising the prospect that some of the claims may be barred by statute of limitations or by plaintiffs not exhausting administrative remedies, the plaintiffs' attorneys told the judge of their wish to file an amended complaint.
According to a plaintiffs' motion to amend that was filed March 23, "Since the filing of this action, counsels for the plaintiffs have been contacted by more than 175 people, both former and current employees of the Defendant, requesting to be members of the putative class action, all having similar complaints of intentional racial discrimination, discrimination impact and discriminatory practices employed by the Defendants."
The attorneys also write that many of the potential members recently coming forward are within the administrative process at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and awaiting their 90-days right-to-sue letter.
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Wonder why Daniel Wiessner decided to publish the Fox article and neglected to publish the CNN article. I would suspect for the same reason each of us decides to seed the articles we do, wouldn't you? Even though Reuters is a very large organization, they usually have a left wing twist in their reporting. One thing I don't like is they never have a comment section in anything they publish. Wonder why? I don't believe the Washington Post or the NYT have comment sections either. If they did, they would be exposed a whole lot faster than they are are being exposed as fake news sources with agendas instead of being reliable news sources.
All the other news is about the obstruction of our MAGA big mouth pussy grabbing President who reported on live television today that he NEVER revealed it was Israel to the Russians. He never said the word "Israel" during the meeting. hahahahaha
In the immortal words of that Great American Philosopher, Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon!"
All this Fox Scandals, collusion between Trump and the Russians are just distractions from how corrupt the Democrats really are.