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October 8, 2007
Roger Ailes Doesn't Want Me
There is an interesting interview with Fox Business News' Roger Ailes in Monday's Wall Street Journal, and it includes the following exchange:Ailes is playing his cards close to his vest -- and I'm surprised he took the question at all -- but that is still a very, very short list.WSJ: Is there anyone from CNBC you'd like to hire?
MR. AILES: Look, I'm the one who put Maria Bartiromo on the air. She's a fine talent. This new woman that they're overusing because she's on now 15 hours a day, Erin Burnett, is a good talent. But she's gonna age. She'll only last another year, the way they're working her. Like Anderson Cooper at CNN. They've been figuring out how to replace Larry King, so they've been flogging poor Anderson. He's actually a pretty good journalist and a good guy. I think sometimes the management of talent misuses talent. Erin Burnett will be -- look, she'll look 75 in the next six months, if they keep working her as hard as they're working her. So, I hope, at some point she steps up and says, "I need water; I need a little break here."
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I'd agree that he didn't really answer the question. AND I also agree with Paul that he's playing his card close to the vest. Why? Because when Fox News was launched, everyone thought it was a joke with no hope of catching CNN. Now Fox News (love it or hate it) often draws more than CNN and MSNBC combined.
Also, Ailes has picked off several former CNBC anchors and reporters and brought them to Fox (calling it a "jail break") and has already started doing the same for the new business channel.
Hmmmm.... I don't believe he actually answered the question.