Shine Will Keep Cashing In On His Fox News Severance While Also Being Paid By WH

In this April 24, 2017 photo, Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant with Rupert Murdoch, second from right, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. The turmoil at Fox News Channel has claimed another victim. The network said Monday, May 1, that Shine, a longtime lieutenant of ousted Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, is out. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this April 24, 2017 photo, Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant with Rupert Murdoch, second from right, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. The turmoil at Fox News Channel ... In this April 24, 2017 photo, Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant with Rupert Murdoch, second from right, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. The turmoil at Fox News Channel has claimed another victim. The network said Monday, May 1, that Shine, a longtime lieutenant of ousted Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, is out. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

White House communications director Bill Shine received $8.4 million in severance pay from Fox News when he left under the cloud of Roger Ailes’ sexual assault scandal, and still has $7 million in the form of bonuses and options coming his way from the company, according to a Friday Hollywood Reporter piece.

The severance agreement reportedly runs out in May 2019, meaning that Shine will have dual income from both Fox News and the White House.

Shine’s financial disclosure forms, along with an alarming climate change report, seem to be part of the bundle of unflattering news the Trump administration waited to dump until Friday when fewer people read the news.

Latest News

Notable Replies

  1. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Shine’s financial disclosure forms, along with an alarming climate change report,
    seem to be part of the bundle of unflattering news the Trump
    administration waited to dump until Friday when fewer people read the
    news.

    Stated another way, another blast of fetid fecal matter bursting from the Trump White House.

  2. I learned about the ‘Friday garbage dump’ years ago watching THE WEST WING. Since the 45th POTUS took office I pay close attention to it, and it’s always entertaining if not infuriating.

  3. Well, it’s not that there’s any conflict between Faux and the White House.

  4. Scum as far as the eye can see.

  5. Shine’s financial disclosure forms, along with an alarming climate change report, seem to be part of the bundle of unflattering news the Trump administration waited to dump until Friday when fewer people read the news.

    So I’m going with a more optimistic look here, that is some one at the WH waited until Trump was out of the White House before releasing these two unflattering news items, because we all know to watch what happens the night before a major holiday, the day after a major holiday, and especially on a Friday night.
    I can’t imagine the yelling and ranting that would ensue if Trump was in the WH. So does anyone else wonder what the WH staff gets up to while Trumps away?

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

22 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for sedonaz Avatar for paulw Avatar for fgs Avatar for jootjoint Avatar for ghost Avatar for doninsd Avatar for old_curmudgeon Avatar for bojimbo26 Avatar for teenlaqueefa Avatar for dont Avatar for lastroth Avatar for fiftygigs Avatar for jinnj Avatar for dommyluc Avatar for caltg Avatar for jacksonhts Avatar for manhardt49 Avatar for fuashcroft Avatar for michaelryerson Avatar for outis Avatar for holywah Avatar for rascal_crone Avatar for rucleare

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: