# Roger Ailes Had a "Hit List"of People Who Hated FOX News **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084 "2016-08-07T21:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/1 "2016-08-07T21:43:52Z")
Rodger Ailes, founder and former Chairman and CEO of Fox News, has been found to have been running and financing ‘Black Room’ campaigns to harass and to discredit his personal enemies and those he saw as enemies of “FOX News” through a discretionary fund of FOX News money. [Link](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/ailes-used-fox-budget-to-finance-campaigns-against-enemies.html) Some of the reporters that he targeted have been listed, but not all. Any chance, in the hopes for full disclosure, that 100% of the files (at least listing ALL of the victims if not all of the dirty tricks) will be released by FOX? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/2 "2016-08-07T22:59:02Z")
Serious question: is the act of doing that illegal? Fox likely has rules about what budgets can be spent on, which they obviously didn’t enforce here, but beyond that? He is reprehensible and deserves his takedown. Just trying to understand if this is more piling on - fine by me - or something prosecutable. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/3 "2016-08-07T23:17:07Z")
It depends. Will doing so make FOX News look better or worse? If they do, it means more of a bad rep for Ailes, and possibly leads to more of his victims and patsies joining the dogpile. It would also expose the network as weak victims of Ailes’s abuse, making their credibility sink even lower. However, if they keep tight-lipped about it, they could hope Trump’s next meltdown draws attention away from them. They’ve never been known to be transparent about anything until now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/4 "2016-08-07T23:48:54Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Serious question: is the act of doing that illegal? Fox likely has rules about what budgets can be spent on, which they obviously didn’t enforce here, but beyond that? I’m not sure. Fox is part of News Corporation, a publicly owned corporation. The money Ailes was spending didn’t belong to him; it belonged to the shareholders. That said, I don’t know how much discretion Ailes was given in how he chose to manage Fox News and spend the company’s money. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/5 "2016-08-09T20:39:08Z")
Ailes is a fucking piece of work ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-had-a-hit-list-of-people-who-hated-fox-news/762084/6 "2016-08-09T20:44:46Z")
Admit it, you’re gonna miss ol’ Burger Balls.