Here’s the post, most of which is typical liberal snark about Fox, Hannity, Romney etc. The Mole is a liberal malcontent, we get it. But right at the top of the piece, the “Mole” explains why they have stuck around working for the Fox News Channel for several years:
I always intended to keep my mouth shut. The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn’t make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror.
That was years ago. My cringe muscles have turned into crow’s feet. The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I’m blacklisted.
I work at Fox News Channel.
Now, why would having the Fox News Channel on one’s resume make it harder to find a job elsewhere in the mainstream media? It’s clearly not a two-way blocked street: Ed Henry is but one of the latest Fox hires to come from another cable network. He worked at CNN for years. Brit Hume came from ABC. Juan Williams came from NPR. It can’t be a case of competence, at least not if we’re going by NBC’s standards. Or ABC’s — they had to take a mulligan on their George Zimmerman surveillance video last week. It can’t be ratings or success, since Fox dominates the ratings among news channels and has for a long time, probably the Mole’s entire career.
The problem could be, of course, that the Mole has a crummy resume. Maybe they haven’t done anything or don’t have much to show for their efforts. Maybe they keep forgetting to spell check. Pencil and crayon tend to get a resume sent straight to the circular file. Maybe word has gotten out that they’re a pain to work with or something. Gawker doesn’t identify the Mole, of course, leaving us to assume little as factual, including whether they actually work for Fox.
But assuming that the Mole actually works for Fox — is the Mole’s lack of ability to get a job outside Fox evidence of liberal media bias? Doesn’t the Mole admit as much in noting that they have been “blacklisted” by potential employers?
People may be afraid he’s a mole of some sort.
heh, +1
such is the reward of spies everywhere
But assuming that the Mole actually works for Fox — is the Mole’s lack of ability to get a job outside Fox evidence of liberal media bias? Doesn’t the Mole admit as much in noting that they have been “blacklisted” by potential employers?
As your title says, that would be the point, to a reasonable reader.
However, nobody on the left these days is reasonable, so the implied lesson is the reverse – that Fox must be even worse than he thought, and associating with it a worse sin even than he knew.
Of course without more details and validation, this is just so much pap.
Poor Shep!
Heh.
Nice one!
2 True.
Maybe they just don’t trust anyone that is willing to leave FOX for a liberal stint. If they’ve worked for FOX that long, they may have trouble slanting their reporting to the left. Can’t have fair and balanced reporting at MSNBC now can we?
I think you’re right, Bryan. Mole must suck.
Plus, why would anyone want to leave the number one network to go to a lesser network?
As for job mobility, Major Garrett went from FNC to National Journal. Kiran Chetry was swooped up by CNN within an hour of leaving FNC. I’m sure there are other examples.
And I can’t think of the word ‘mole’ without flashing back to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEExYuRelbg
The tone of “Fox Mole’s” writing is so surly and resentful—and crude—that I can well understand why s/he has not found employment elsewhere. Indeed, it speaks well for the charity of the eeeeeeeeeeeeevil conservative media (so-called) that it keeps this lumpish troll of an employee on regardless of an attitude problem which cannot fail to have come to the attention of highers-up unless “FM” works at a level so menial as to be barely worth noticing.
Totally fake. What credibility does Gawker have?
Gawker is mostly a bunch of degenerates.
Could he be more of a 99%-er?
To wit: “The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I’m blacklisted.”
Zero resumes sent + zero job offers received = Blacklisted (?!)
Sure, THAT’s the problem.
“……The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job…..”
The mole’s plan was to improve his/her resume by just showing up for work for a few months at Fox News? Wow, the standard for liberal professionals must be lower than I imagined.
The mole might also run into some serious legal issues working for both Fox and gawker. I’m sure the mole’s Fox employment contract contains clauses regarding conflict of interest, disclosure of confidential information, non-competition, etc. But then again, legal contracts don’t seem to mean anything to liberals.
not buying this
up and comers would kill to get their foot in the door at fox news
im guessing either the person worked there but was quickly bypassed by more eager competition
or
a lefty slant/riff on the much more regular happenings of a righty keep his head down and mouth shut in a liberal environment
and why would there even need to be a mole at fox news when the libs say what they want about it anyways
did the pervert get caught trying to peeping tom megyn kelly or harris faulkner or something
this whole thing doesnt pass the sniff test
Sounds like a cry for help. oh, the humanity!!
Probably fake. If it’s real, the mole is certainly violating a non-disclosure agreement and probably breaking laws.
Whoever is writing this is real scum.
Old Soldier,
I don’t think it’s fake. This is just a clumsy liberal response to stings by O’Keefe and Breitbart. The only problem is that liberals are too stupid to think through the legal ramifications of breaking employment contracts. The Fox News corporation is not naive. I’ve worked as a contractor for dozens of companies, and every single one required me to sign a contract with a non-disclosure clause, a non-competition clause, and a conflict-of-interest disclosure.
The best part of this boondoggle is that Gawker likely has some legal liability since they apparently actively promoted the mole’s behavior.
Great point. I linked you to my post.
I just did not see all that much in the “moles” stuff. A pre interview feed probably has Hannity pissed off but there is not much there (Mitt and Sean seem fine). The stuff about open raaaaacism in the Fox News comments is something anyone could claim (you do not need a mole to make such an allegation). So is this all this mole has? Seems like Fox News is a pretty tame place.
If the mole’s difficulty in getting another job is for the reasons Bryan states, then what does it say about Fox that this untalented, dull-witted person has kept his position there for so long?
How many clowns from the FOX news channel have moved to the other networks?
None of them.
They get replaced and then they go down to a regional.
You morans need to read what he says, “No one wants me. I’m blacklisted.
I work at Fox News Channel.”
Fox is more than willing to accept everyone elses cast offs, the other networks are not willing to take Fox’s mooks.
Reading is fundamental.
“How many clowns from the FOX news channel have moved to the other networks? / None of them.”
I guess Paula Zahn doesn’t count because she’s not a clown? Or maybe you don’t know what the hell you’re going on about.
Zahn started out at ABC then CBS and briefly fox before they canned her because she was negotiating with CNN.
She was a name well before fox
Try again
Why would a television host want to leave FoxNews, the most watched cable news channel, to work in ratings oblivion on CNN or MSNBC? Even so, Kiran Chetry and at least two or three other anchors moving from FoxNews to CNN and MSNBC when FoxNews passed on reupping their contracts.
Seriously, spankyb…you either have no idea what you’re talking about or you’re a trolling liar. My bet is on a little of both.
Oh, and BTW – if you’re going to accuse people of being morons, CAN YOU AT LEAST SPELL IT CORRECTLY? Only a moron spells “moron” with an “A.”
But the point of the blog post you’re referring to remains unrefuted (at least by you). For one, this Gawker poser isn’t an on-air personality, so everything you wrote, in addition to being inaccurate, is beside the point. Even if it weren’t, it still speaks badly of other networks if they are indeed blacklisting people for working at FoxNews. Why, that’s posititively McCarthian.
So maybe YOU should try again. Troll.
Kirin Chetry is the best you can come up with?
Pish posh.
I refudiate you sir. You are a morans and now I must take my leave of this foul dank palace of ignorance and stupidity.
You sound like Donna Howard.
So you’re resolving this by moving the goal posts? That’s rich.
Occam’s razor for the win!
Tommy
free tip:
before calling everyone a moron learn to spell it first
“Reading is fundamental.”
So is spelling. ‘morans’ is not a word, you cretin.
Actually spanky is correct, this article takes a complete logical 180. CPAs who have worked for a crooked accounting firm may have difficulty finding work for legitimate firms, whereas the crooks will take anyone willing to bend numbers for higher pay.
btw google “Morans”, click the images link, and you’ll see where the spelling comes from.
Have a nice day!
Why, that’s posititively McCarthian.
Did you know that Greta Van Susteren’s father Urban was Joe McCarthy’s close adviser and all-around BFF? And is there any doubt whatsoever that Fox “News” would have embraced ol’ Tailgunner Joe and his crusades?
To be fair, so was John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. I believe one of R. Kennedy’s children is McCarthy’s god-daughter.
But the accusation was that the other networks were McCarthian, not Fox News. Fox hires other networks people; other networks don’t hire Fox alumns.
Yeah, liberal bias! Or, y’know, maybe working for a fake news organization doesn’t look so good when you try to get hired with a real one.
Fake news? Who said anything about NBC?
I call BS.
There is no mole, this is typical Lefty Gawker crap.
The title of this article “Who Misses the Point of His or Her Own Tale” is steeped in irony and lack of self-awareness, clearly, as the author has obviously missed the point.
You want McCarthyism?
The conservative tea party icon also got in shots at Democrats and President Obama, who spoke Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University. West said Obama was “scared” to have a discussion with him. He later said “he’s heard” up to 80 U.S. House Democrats are Communist Party members, but wouldn’t name names.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/allen-west-hears-cheers-jeers-at-town-hall-2295766.html
The Fox “News” spin on this should be revealing.
Maybe they haven’t done anything or don’t have much to show for their efforts. Maybe they keep forgetting to spell check. Pencil and crayon tend to get a resume sent straight to the circular file.
I should think that if said skills were so bad they’d get this person fired at Fox News… And yet, in your rush to defend Fox, and attack this person, you ignore that he, or she, was hired by Fox with a weaker resume and is still working there, despite as you so eloquently put it, this person is incompetent to the level of pencil and crayon resume’s…
So, well played, Sir… You have now implied that Fox hires and remains satisfied with the bottom-of-the-barrel employees, who cannot succeed anywhere else. Or, perhaps you’re implying Fox News rots the minds of its employees so they become drooling morons who are incapable of even the simplest tasks.
Fox News is the televised equivalent of the National Enquirer. It’s not real, folks. It’s entertainment disguised as news. Don’t you guys remember that last year Fox News was prevented from broadcasting in Canada because they have a law stating that news outlets are required to tell the truth?