Ex-CNNer Bill Hemmer On What's Different At Fox: "We're A Business. Viewers Count"

New York Observer:

"He's an Ohio guy," said Bill Hemmer. "And I'm an Ohio guy. We Buckeyes stick together."

It was a recent Wednesday morning, and Mr. Hemmer, a native of Cincinnati, was sitting across from NYTV at a restaurant in the Muse Hotel on West 46th Street, talking about his boss Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News Channel and scion of Warren, Ohio.

Until a few years ago, Mr. Hemmer and Mr. Ailes played on opposite sides of the ball. Mr. Hemmer, 43, made his name at CNN, where he rose quickly through the ranks over the course of a decade, reporting from the likes of Kosovo and Afghanistan and hosting a series of morning news shows.

Read the whole story: New York Observer

Comments

[bluesky49876]

What is this story doing here, what is exactly its significance. Is HoffPost becoming a tabloid?

[Ginzaman]

I'm also a incredibly overpaid media hack reporter wannabe. But if Murdoch is stupid enough to pay me millions of dollars a year for parroting talking points all day long then f**k yeah I'll take the money.

[sixfour27]

Another closet case - Shilling for a gay/minority/women bashing network. What a surprise!

[LiberalnChicago]

He and Shep are a perfect pair.

[reprob8]

He was, and apparently still remains as vacuous and inept a journalist as one will ever find on TV.

[TomR]

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Bill Hemmer On What's Different At Fox: "We're A Business. Viewers Count"
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Well, at least he confirms that it's not the news that counts at Fox. Perhaps they should rename the channel to Fox Viewers, to reinforce the channel's mission to propagandize 24% of the population.

- Tom

[hootie1fan]

The same thing could be said for whore houses in Nevada.

[FirstBlowupDollLaura]

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/27/231050/82

The media is responsible for what has happened to our country under BushCo.

People can only make judgements with the truth they have available.