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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 11:31 AM Apr 2017

CNN's Alisyn Camerota: Roger Ailes sexually harassed me



For a long time Alisyn Camerota was reluctant to describe the dark side of working at Fox News.

She respects many of her former colleagues. She has close friends who work there. But she perceives that something has changed now that the channel's CEO Roger Ailes and biggest star Bill O'Reilly have been ousted by the Murdoch family.

"It feels as though, if I take the Murdochs at their word, they really want to know what was wrong there and what the culture was like," Camerota said.

And there was something profoundly wrong. In an interview on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Camerota said publicly for the first time that she was one of Ailes' targets.
"Yes, Roger Ailes did sexually harass me," Camerota said.


http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/23/media/alisyn-camerota-fox-news-roger-ailes-harassment/index.html
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CNN's Alisyn Camerota: Roger Ailes sexually harassed me (Original Post) spanone Apr 2017 OP
Maybe. Rustyeye77 Apr 2017 #1
you think she's lying? spanone Apr 2017 #2
it may be true...i dont know. Rustyeye77 Apr 2017 #3
That's a big "me too" ornotna Apr 2017 #4
How was she sexually harrassed ? Rustyeye77 Apr 2017 #5
Are you suggesting she lied? ornotna Apr 2017 #6
she claims roger ailes sexually harrassed her.... spanone Apr 2017 #7
ok...i believe her. Rustyeye77 Apr 2017 #9
You can believe the truth. republican 'family values' are out of the sewer Achilleaze Apr 2017 #8
I am really grateful she came out and said this. Raine1967 Apr 2017 #10
absolutely. thanks! spanone Apr 2017 #12
I watched. That took great courage. I admire her for it. lamp_shade Apr 2017 #11
Sorry, I don't. She's pushing right wing lies on CNN now. Hortensis Apr 2017 #13
 

Rustyeye77

(2,736 posts)
3. it may be true...i dont know.
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:01 PM
Apr 2017

on occasion there have been people that have lied or stretch the truth.

I think of that Lacrosse team that were accused of sexual assault.

ornotna

(10,803 posts)
4. That's a big "me too"
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:06 PM
Apr 2017

Why would she put herself in a position that could jeopardize her career if she was found to be lying?

It was the culture there, seems quite believable.

 

Rustyeye77

(2,736 posts)
5. How was she sexually harrassed ?
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:09 PM
Apr 2017

EEOC Definition of Sexual Harassment

It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.

Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.

Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.

ornotna

(10,803 posts)
6. Are you suggesting she lied?
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:23 PM
Apr 2017

Or that that saying - we need to get to know each other better, in a hotel room- not sexual harassment?

spanone

(135,844 posts)
7. she claims roger ailes sexually harrassed her....
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:34 PM
Apr 2017

you want details?

Camerota worked at Fox for more than a decade as a reporter and weekend anchor, so she interacted with Ailes extensively. In 2014 she moved from Fox to CNN.

"Let me be clear," she said in the interview. "Roger Ailes was -- could be charming. He could be quite charismatic. He could be uproariously funny. He could also be a bit of a bully, and mean. And he also was often kind of grossly inappropriate with things that he would say, and I think that many of us experienced that. He would talk about body parts. He would say 'Give me a spin.' He would want to be greeted with a hug."

"But the time that I remember most," she said, "was when I was first starting out at Fox and I was single, and I remember Roger, being in Roger's office, and I was saying that I wanted more opportunity. He said 'Well, I would have to work with you. I would have to work with you on that case. I would have to work with you really closely, and it may require us getting to know each other better, and that might have to happen away from here, and it might have to happen at a hotel. Do you know what I'm saying?' And I said 'Yeah, I think I do know what you're saying.'"

Camerota said she didn't tell anyone at the time. "I was embarrassed, and it is sort of humiliating," she said.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. You can believe the truth. republican 'family values' are out of the sewer
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 12:37 PM
Apr 2017

at Fox, at the white house, and everywhere else

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
10. I am really grateful she came out and said this.
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 01:29 PM
Apr 2017

It took a lot of courage to say why she left her previous job.

She has a platform that many women do not have, and I am glad she is using it.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Sorry, I don't. She's pushing right wing lies on CNN now.
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 04:05 PM
Apr 2017

Aisles may well have tried. She was one of the alpha females strutting their stuff at Fox, but it takes a victim to make harassment and she seems very able to use her body to her advantage.

More to the point though, the people who work at Fox News are shockingly dishonorable and irresponsible, and they've done tremendous damage to our nation. I wouldn't trust her to tell the truth about the weather outside, and I'd "admire" her for dropping dead.

Camarata earning her pay on Fox.

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