Latest Fox News shakeup: Greta Van Susteren is gone
September 7, 2016
After Gretchen Carlson filed her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, Greta Van Susteren was among his biggest defenders.
In fact, she received a lot of flack online for referring to Carlson as a “disgruntled employee” and implying that she’d filed the suit because her show was going to be canceled.
Van Susteren, meanwhile, said she hadn’t experienced the improper behavior Carlson (and, it turned out, many other women at Fox News) alleged.
Whether Van Susteren was telling the truth, playing politics or something in between, the situation’s not ending well for her.
She’s out at Fox News.
The network said in a release sent this morning that Van Susteren will leave the network after 14 years.
Brit Hume will take over her 7 p.m. slot, becoming the new host of “On the Record.”
It’s the first major move made by Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine, who were appointed network co-presidents after Ailes was forced out earlier this summer with more women stepping forward and accusing him of harassment after Carlson filed suit.
Van Susteren rose to prominence as a legal analyst on CNN, where she worked on the O.J. Simpson case. She was one of the highest-profile hosts to jump from CNN to Fox News, landing there in 2002, when she began hosting “On the Record.”
It’s unclear whether she left voluntarily or was fired.
Politico says the parting of the ways came over a financial disagreement. She had said in the weeks after the Ailes scandal broke that she’d be perfectly happy returning to life as a practicing lawyer or teaching law if she left FNC.
She also reportedly had a clause in her contract that allowed her to leave within a short window if Ailes exited the network. As an Ailes loyalist, she may have taken that out.
Tags: Brit Hume, cable news, FNC, fox news, fox news channel, Greta Van Susteren, roger ailes
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