27-09-2023, 10:59 PM
The Byline Times has an article about today's events which includes this about what what is supposedly been going on at GB News
Byline Times understands that it was the threat of “staff insurrection” over how Wootton, the show’s executive editor, handled the segment – and the apparent mocking of production staff (per Fox’s tweets) – which led to Wootton’s suspension.
One senior host told this newspaper it had been “inevitable”.
Other GB News sources suggest Fox and Wootton will never again appear on the channel. Senior newsroom sources have said Frangopoulos ignored warnings from staff members that the continual employment of Fox and Wootton was “an accident waiting to happen”. One senior presenter said: “It’s about time. But why only suspend Wootton? They should get rid of him for good.”
Employees have painted a picture of a “rudderless” organisation that has lost hundreds of experienced journalists in the past two years, driven out by “presenter power” and a management team which refuses to listen to their warnings about potential breaches of the Ofcom code, and which is now has a staff heavy with “uni leavers and ideologues”.
bylinetimes.com
Byline Times understands that it was the threat of “staff insurrection” over how Wootton, the show’s executive editor, handled the segment – and the apparent mocking of production staff (per Fox’s tweets) – which led to Wootton’s suspension.
One senior host told this newspaper it had been “inevitable”.
Other GB News sources suggest Fox and Wootton will never again appear on the channel. Senior newsroom sources have said Frangopoulos ignored warnings from staff members that the continual employment of Fox and Wootton was “an accident waiting to happen”. One senior presenter said: “It’s about time. But why only suspend Wootton? They should get rid of him for good.”
Employees have painted a picture of a “rudderless” organisation that has lost hundreds of experienced journalists in the past two years, driven out by “presenter power” and a management team which refuses to listen to their warnings about potential breaches of the Ofcom code, and which is now has a staff heavy with “uni leavers and ideologues”.
bylinetimes.com