This article mentions instances of sexual harassment.
Because she’s always tried to put her job before politics.
“I resented being put in a partisan box,” Camerota toldThe New York Times.
“‘Oh, you work at Fox News, so you’re obviously an archconservative.’
No, I’m a journalist, and I’m trying to cover the news.”
After spending 16 years at Fox and weathering several wildly unpleasant experiences, Camerota decided enough was enough.
“It bred more tension than I’ve felt anywhere else.”
In her piece, she talked about the couple and their kids, referring to them as a family.
“Roger went berserk,” Camerota said.
“And I said, ‘What other word is there?'”
“This did not surprise me when I worked at Fox.
Sharia Law was one of their favorite boogeymen,” Camerotasaid.
“He said ‘There is no other side.’
In Roger’s world view, there was no other side.
Fox’s one-sided reporting was one of the things that led Camerota to question her job and her morals.
“The president has given up thinking that they’re a news outlet.
The president has given up thinking that there is any semblance of balance.
He believes they are his channel,” Camerota toldThe Hollywood Reporterin 2019.
When Camerota shared her story on CNN in 2017, she described such an encounter with Ailes.
“He said, ‘Well, I would have to work with you.
I would have to work with you on that case.
Do you know what I’m saying?'”
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“It was sort of emotional harassment,” she told CNN.
Speaking to BuzzFeed News, Camerota explained that the working environment at Fox was as toxic as they come.
“[He] wielded power in a really sort of unpleasant, bullying way,” she said.
She says their biggest mistake, in retrospect, was keeping quiet and enduring Ailes’ behavior.
“It was very hard to stand up to him,” she admitted.
“He kept everyone sort of silent and secretive.”
“I don’t like being in this mortal combat position,” she admitted to The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s just night and day.
On every level, it is dramatically different,” she said.
And with Roger that was a weekly occurrence.”
“In terms of journalistic standards, there are some.
CNN is built on them.
CNN is built on the mechanics of journalism,” Camerota said.
“At Fox, nobody ever asked me for a second source.
Nobody ever mentioned it.”
