Gawker: Gleep! We Have A Mole Inside FoxNews and We Plan On Releasing Weekly Columns From Her, Tracking the Daily Decisions At FoxNews!!!
FoxNews: We Found The Mole

As Mediobistro's headline put it, Gawker's FoxNews Mole Reveals... Nothing.

One big revelation was something everyone knew or could know if they chose to -- that FoxNews had run some kind of headline about rappers at the White House on FoxNation.

The other big reveal was that Sean Hannity did a two-part interview with Mitt Romney, to be broadcast over two nights, and to suggest the interview was actually being done over two nights (rather than one, as it was), he wanted Romney to change his tie for the second part. Romney declined to wear the pink tie, saying something like "I'm not going to go all Donald Trump." Or something.

A second blockbuster installment reveals that FoxNews' computers are old,their bathrooms aren't nice (or are they? the "mole" is confusing on this key point) and that Bill O'Reilly does in fact use the bathrooms that everyone else does.

Also, the mole is actually so highly placed as to bring back top-secret intel like this:

The lobby isn't too shabby. It's mostly bland and marble, with the usual pieces of inoffensive corporate art. Not so usual, however, are the 25-foot-tall murals featuring a rotating cast of on-air personalities. Up until a couple months ago it was Fox News prime time people plastered up there. Currently it's Fox Business personalities, the grim swollen visages of Neil Cavuto and Lou Dobbs grinning at you, North Korea-style, insisting that all is well at the ratings-challenged business network.

Wow, you saw the lobby?

So, as you can see, this mole was super-connected and was involved in all sorts of editorial decision making light clerical decision-making.

Well, the mole -- who explained that she (I think it's a she-- men don't care about bathrooms*) can't find another job -- is about to lose the only job she can get.

“We found the person and we’re exploring legal options at this time.”

I suppose Gawker will hire her part-time to deliver Memories of FoxNews. Because it would look pretty bad if their source got canned and then they stood by.

* I suppose a guy who was trying to offer big insider secrets about FoxNews, but who didn't have any big insider secrets, might write about bathrooms, just because he had nothing else.

But the picture of toilet paper draped over the gap between stall and wall, for privacy's sake, reads "chick" to me.

posted by Ace at 01:11 PM

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