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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">LI cv none?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Moody</font></div><div>Executive Vice President and Executive Editor, Fox News</div><div>
</div><div>Katie Baker</div><div>Managing Editor at The Daily Beast</div><div>
</div><div>Zach Friedman</div><div>Vice President, Digital Ad Sales at FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network</div><div>
</div><div>Jason Ehrich</div><div>Vice President, Social Media, Fox News/Fox Business</div><div>
</div><div>Sean Smith</div><div>
</div><div>John Fiedler</div><div>SVP, Digital at Fox News Channel</div><div>
</div><div>Nikole King</div><div>Senior Vice President, Business Development & Mobile Fox News</div><div>
</div><div>Roger Ailes</div><div>Chairman & CEO at FOX</div><div>
</div><div>Jeff Misenti</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to harassing his female staff, former Fox CEO Roger Ailes reportedly used corporate funds to run smear campaigns against journalists and others. Some of the operatives were familiar on-air names such as Andrea Tantaros and Bo Dietl.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill O'Reilly really needs to look more carefully in his own backyard the next time he complains about <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/o_reilly_warns_hillary_clinton_stay_away_from_media_matters_or_else_041415" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">media</a> "<a href="http://www.newshounds.us/bill_o_reilly_goes_off_the_deep_end_defending_his_well_fed_slaves_remark_liberals_want_me_dead_072816" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">smear</a> <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/bill_o_reilly_declares_war_on_anti_fox_defamers_062415" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">merchants</a>."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/ailes-used-fox-budget-to-finance-campaigns-against-enemies.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Today’s reporting</a> from Gabriel Sherman reveals that one of the results of Ailes’ <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/breaking_roger_ailes_out_at_fox_news_rupert_murdoch_to_step_in_072116" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">disgraced departure</a> from Fox News is new scrutiny over how he spent corporate funds. During his tenure, Ailes seemingly had a blank check that enabled him to make payouts for sexual harassment claims. But, apparently, Ailes also freely used money for “Black Room” operations:</font></p><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[…] Ailes was also able to use portions of the Fox budget to hire consultants, political operatives, and private detectives that reported only to him, according to a senior Fox source. Last week, according to the source, Fox News dismissed five consultants whom Ailes had hired to do work that was more about advancing his own agenda than Fox’s. One of the consultants, Bert Solivan, ran negative PR campaigns against Ailes’s personal and political enemies out of Fox News headquarters, a source said. A Fox News spokesperson confirmed: “Solivan was recently informed that his services were no longer needed.” Solivan, who had previously worked for Fox News as a general manager of the channel’s website, did not respond to requests for comment.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to one highly-placed source, Solivan worked out of what Fox insiders called “the Black Room,” an operation Ailes established around 2011 to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted both inside and outside the company. The “Black Room” was located on the 14th floor of the News Corp building at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, a quiet part of the office that housed Fox News Latino and some marketing and promotions employees. Fox employees <b>Ken LaCorte and Jim Pinkerton</b>, veteran political operatives who’ve worked with Ailes since the 1980s, also worked with Solivan, the source said, adding that Ailes’s personal lawyer, and Fox contributor, Peter Johnson Jr. advised the team. (In an email, Peter Johnson denied any involvement in “Black Room” campaigns, saying, “The only online campaign I’m aware of is yours attempting to create a truth from a fiction with this account.”)</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, in addition to serving as Ailes’ personal lawyer and <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/is_peter_johnson_jr_a_stand_in_for_roger_ailes_10262012" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">likely stand-in,</a> as a <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/fox_s_peter_johnson_jr_suggests_san_bernardino_shooting_is_part_of_the_war_on_christmas_120315" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">"legal analyst</a>" and <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/20120917_peter_johnson_jr_s_guest_s_message_doesn_t_match_the_fox_message" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">guest host</a> on Fox News, Peter Johnson’s duties appear to include assisting in going after those on Ailes’ enemies list.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You may also recognize the name “Jim Pinkerton” as a <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/fox_s_jim_pinkerton_baselessly_suggests_al_sharpton_blackmailed_msnbc_into_ferguson_coverage_09012014" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">long-time</a> <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2010/04/04/gretchen_carlson_jim_pinkerton_pushing_pro_pope_propaganda.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Fox</a> <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2005/11/03/they_eat_their_own_the_campaign_to_smear_scooter_libby_begins.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">guest</a>. He is also the guy <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/14/inside-the-laughable-cable-news-blog-roger-aile/197580" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">reportedly behind</a> Ailes' Fox-shilling blog, The Cable Game. The site went dormant for a while but was revived of late. By coincidence, its <a href="https://thecablegame.wordpress.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">most recent</a> post is dated July 10, 2016. That’s shortly after Gretchen Carlson filed her <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/bombshell_gretchen_carlson_claims_she_was_fired_from_fox_news_because_of_roger_ailes_sexual_harassment_070616" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit</a> that started Ailes’ downward spiral and shortly before it was reported that it was only a matter of time before Ailes <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/murdochs-have-decided-to-remove-roger-ailes.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">would be fired</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the way, The Cable Game has <a href="https://thecablegame.wordpress.com/?s=newshounds" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">attacked us</a>, too. And he or she is <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCableGame/status/761632499311251457" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">still tweeting</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the bigger “Black Room” targets were <a href="http://gawker.com/report-roger-ailes-used-fox-news-money-to-spy-on-gawke-1784939443" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Gawker staffers</a>; the former editor of the Ailes-owned Putnam County News & Recorder, Joe Lindsley; and Sherman, himself. And here’s where you might recognize some more familiar names. From <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/ailes-used-fox-budget-to-finance-campaigns-against-enemies.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Sherman’s report</a>, with my emphases:</font></p><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2011, Lindsley had a falling out with Ailes and quit the paper along with two co-workers. Ailes assigned private investigators to <a href="http://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/01/gawker-editor-ailes-was-having-me-tailed-001556" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">follow</a> Lindsley around Putnam County. <strong>He also asked Fox host Andrea Tantaros, whom Ailes had once seated next to Lindsley at a dinner party at Ailes’s home, to contact Lindsley and report back on his whereabouts, two sources said.</strong> Meanwhile, Solivan posted negative comments about Lindsley on blogs, a source said.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I was also the target of an operation, a highly-placed source told me: In 2012, while I was researching a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AD6O6BU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">biography</a> of Ailes, Fox operatives set up web pages to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/roger-ailes-biographer-encounters-third-rate-online-taunting/2012/07/10/gJQAeBfJbW_blog.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">attack</a> my reputation, and Fox funds paid for Google search ads against my name that linked to the sites. <strong>One source also said private investigators employed by Fox contributor Bo Dietl were instructed to follow me and my wife. (Dietl’s firm was used to track Andrea Mackris, the producer who accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment in 2004, the source said).</strong> When reached by phone, Dietl said: “I have no real comments. I love Roger Ailes. He built one of the great news channels out of nothing. He’s a very successful guy.”</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investigations into Ailes’ use of Fox’s funds may incriminate other executives not only in these activities but also as having helped to cover up Ailes’ sexual harassments via payments of hush money, e.g.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But for me, it’s the media malpractice, stupid. <a href="https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/762269847195648000" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Sherman tweeted</a> earlier today that Ailes’ smear campaigns are further proof that he "created Fox as an anti-journalism organization.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s a key point, in my opinion. And just as important is the fact that it appears at least four talking heads presented to us as analysts – and in the case of <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/andrea_tantaros_accuses_obama_of_faking_his_tears_about_gun_violence_with_a_raw_onion_010516" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tantaros</a> and <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/fox_news_fights_the_war_on_july_4th_07042013" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Johnson</a>, sometime hosts – were all in.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch O'Reilly warn Hillary Clinton that "we'll have something to say about it" if she doesn't stay away from "smear merchants," from the April 13, 2015 O'Reilly Factor.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ken LaCorte</b> (born February 5, 1965) is an executive at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fox News Channel</a>. In 2006, the network sent him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gaza</a> to press for the release of kidnapped journalists<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Centanni" title="Steve Centanni" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steve Centanni</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Wiig" class="mw-redirect" title="Olaf Wiig" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Olaf Wiig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_LaCorte#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaCorte graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_McKenna_College" title="Claremont McKenna College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Claremont McKenna College</a> in 1987. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a media consultant for over a hundred companies and candidates in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States</a> and internationally, including presidential campaigns in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Guatemala</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Venezuela</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1997, he challenged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">California</a> law by publishing the state's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%27s_Law" title="Megan's Law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Megan's Law</a> list. Despite a warning from the state's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Attorney General</a>, LaCorte hand copied the state's high risk <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offenders" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex offenders" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">sex offenders</a> and published them online. In 2004, California officially published the Megan's Law database on the internet.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_LaCorte#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaCorte became the Western Region Bureau Chief for the Fox News Channel in 1999, the national Director of News Editorial in 2003 and the VP of Fox News Digital in 2006.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> BALDWIN PARK, Calif. -- Under state law here, if Californians want to see whether a child molester lives next door, they must go to a police station, fill out a form and search a CD-ROM. At many stations, the drives that house the data are literally locked shut.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken LaCorte found the state's controls outrageous, so he took the law into his own hands. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The central legal issue is whether making the names of sex offenders public could be considered punitive.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A victims rights advocate and webmaster, LaCorte let the genie out of the bottle in August by posting the names of Los Angeles County's 150 high-risk sex offenders on a Web site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now he's at the center of a raging debate in California over how public the information about society's most despised criminals should be, and ultimately his actions may either force the state to make the names of sex offenders widely available or inadvertently strengthen support for tight controls over the information.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Nobody else will stand up for the First Amendment and the parents in this state," LaCorte said. "I will. I can put anything on a Web site, from bestiality to the Pentagon Papers but not the names of sex offenders. The California Legislature cannot erase the First Amendment just because they want to."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the state enacted legislation to allow the names of California's 64,000 sex offenders to be publicized, it did so gingerly for fear that the law could be overturned. The central legal issue is whether making the names of sex offenders public could be considered punitive; if it is, the law could be thrown out. And while courts in Washington and New Jersey recently found that publicizing sex offenders' names is not punitive, state officials here are concerned that the extent of the publicity could be a factor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If the government put it up on the Internet, there could be a constitutional question about privacy," said Rob Stutzman, spokesman for the California Attorney General's Office. "Why should someone in Shanghai know if there's a sex offender in Pacoima?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So the state Department of Justice issues CD-ROMs to more than 300 law enforcement agencies, which include police departments, sheriff's departments and district attorneys' offices. The state updates the data quarterly, issuing changes of address for sex offenders, the names of newly released criminals and deletions of names of the dead.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three other states -- Alaska, Florida and Indiana -- invoke the immediacy of the Internet by posting sex offenders' names on Web sites. California's actions are limited in this area, however, because it is not an open-records state, and the state constitution does not allow the release of people's criminal histories.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But a California Assemblyman wants to change that position. Jim Battin, Republican of La Quinta, said he would propose a constitutional amendment in the next session to make California an open-records state in dealing with criminal history. He said he would also introduce a bill for the third time that would force the state to publish the names of sex offenders on the Internet. He said that LaCorte's efforts factored prominently into capitol debate over the issue. </font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>