Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham is set to take over the 10 p.m. hour on Fox News with her own prime time show, CNN reported late Monday.
CNN reported, citing unnamed sources, that Ingraham has “been telling friends that the deal is essentially done.”
According to CNN, star host Sean Hannity’s show, which currently occupies the 10 p.m. slot, would move an hour earlier, and “The Five,” which currently occupies that 9 p.m. slot, would move four hours earlier to its eponymous time slot.
Fox News on Friday announced that it terminated Eric Bolling, co-host of “The Specialists,” and canceled the show, which previously occupied the 5 p.m. time slot. The network suspended Bolling in August pending an investigation into allegations that he sent lewd photographs to his female colleagues.
A Fox News spokesperson pushed back on the CNN report, telling TPM by email that the network currently has “no deal in place” with Ingraham.
Amid speculation in June about Sean Spicer’s future as White House press secretary, a month before Spicer ultimately announced his resignation, Ingraham said she “would think about” taking his place but said she wasn’t sure the job was something she was “dying to do.”
“I’m not sure if that’s the role I would pick for myself,” she said.
Aaaah! Frau Goebbels…I mean, Ingraham…gets her big time propaganda slot.
Another sign that the FOX empire is crumbling. Jon Stewart said it best: The brilliance of FOX was that they managed to make fringe right wing radio appear mainstream. They did this by having a number of somewhat reputable journalists like Chis Wallace and Brit Hume mixed in with the crazies like Sean Hannity. They were also quite good at delivering messages in unison throughout the day to give each of their bullshit narratives more credibility.
Now that Ailes is gone, everything that made FOX seem credible has gone with him. Many of their more reputable journalists have already left. Their biggest ratings magnet (O’Rielly) has been pushed out, there’s no longer any continuity in their messaging and the unfiltered extreme right has taken over their evening broadcasts. They’re no longer able to pretend to be anything but what they really are: Extreme right wing talk radio that happens to be on TV; nothing more.
Why? Why do they want to cause nightmares at Shady Pines!
Fox News thinks this is a good move?
Halcyon days are OVAH!
Grifters gotta grift:
Laura Ingraham’s website, Lifezette, is being sued by Associated Press for nearly $50,000 in unpaid fees and penalties.
Buzzfeed has the details:
The complaint, filed on Friday in District of Columbia Superior Court, alleges that LifeZette entered into a year-long licensing agreement to use AP content in July 2015, agreeing to pay $4,200 per month. The AP says it suspended LifeZette’s account in February 2016 due to nonpayment.
LifeZette did submit a check for $42,611, according to the lawsuit, but it was returned due to insufficient funds. A copy of the check, dated Jan. 16, 2017, from the account of Ingraham Media Group Inc., was included in the court filings. Ingraham launched LifeZette in 2015 and is listed on the website as its editor-in-chief.
http://www.newshounds.us/laura_ingraham_s_lifezette_appears_to_be_in_financial_trouble_022517#6fOtPTKuYJgi7Mur.99