As a general rule, when your management decisions are being met by the news that your competitors “smell blood in the water” and “are moving to take advantage”, you should probably rethink your overall strategy:
The profitable, influential, seemingly impregnable Fox News is suddenly vulnerable.
In a massive disruption for right-wing media, Fox talent is on the market, the purge of the old-boy clique may continue, and there’s huge internal paranoia about further lawsuits and revelations.
On top of that, there are episodic pushes from the next generation of Murdoch leadership for changes in culture and personality.
So at a time when all of cable is vulnerable as viewer habits change, Fox is caught between the America-first instincts of its base viewers, and the globalist impulses for Rupert Murdoch’s sons.
A woman to run Fox News? The Hollywood Reporter reports that James and Lachlan Murdoch have quietly put out feelers for a new head of Fox News to replace Bill Shine, the Roger Ailes consigliere.
“[T]he preference … is that the new leader be female.”
And competitors are moving to take advantage.
Perhaps they could hire Marissa Mayer. I understand she is available these days.