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Fox News Rebukes Glenn Beck, Reminds Him About Advertiser Losses
Fox Spox: "Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show..."
ANGELO CARUSONE
Glenn Beck is engaging in a bit of revisionst history concerning his Fox News exit. At an April 27 event at New York University, Beck portrayed his departure as self-initiated and suggested that Fox CEO Roger Ailes pleaded with him to stay, explaining:
"If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond. I remember feeling, 'If you do not leave now, you won't leave with your soul intact.'"
[...]
"At the end, when we were leaving, it was a long process. Roger said to me, 'You're not going to leave.' And I said, 'I am.' And he said, 'Nobody does,' meaning leave television....And I said, 'I'm fortunate because I haven't been in it that long.' I knew what this big, huge Fox empire brought to the table, and I had to leave before I became too enamored of that."
A Fox News spokesperson issued a sharp rebuke contradicting Beck's claim, instead citing Glenn Beck's advertiser losses as the major cause of Beck's exit, saying:
"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished."
Indeed. Following a series of grassroots efforts beginning in July 2009, around the time Beck accused President Obama of being a "racist," advertisers began fleeing his Fox News show. A Media Matters study revealed that the number of paid advertisements during Glenn Beck's show plummeted and never recovered as a result of those grassroots efforts:
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/29/fox-news-rebukes-glenn-beck-reminds-him-about-a/193819
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"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass..." (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2013
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tanyev
(42,358 posts)1. The Seat of the Soul
babylonsister
(170,962 posts)2. I guess you could call it that!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. Yes, very close. He's nothing but a little shitstain.
Warpy
(110,903 posts)3. No shit. With no sponsors left, his days were numbered
and if he'd gotten fired, he'd have been pure poison to any other broadcaster.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)4. Not really an SOS -- more like a POS
n/t
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)5. Beck is mentally ill
I stand with Malloy who hopes Beck suicides on the air.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. Oh, SNAP! Thanks Babylonsister!
I needed the laugh - this crook has destroyed the minds of people I once knew as humans.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)8. Glenn has a soul?
Who knew?
I thought he sold that worthless piece of trash to the Devil a long time ago.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)9. Hee hee.
What a creep.