FOX News mole

FOX News mole

FOX News mole, News and gossip site Gawker recently introduced a columnist it said was a disenchanted FOX News employee there to spill the conservative network's secrets. Now, however, FOX says it has identified the employee and is "exploring legal options." This despite the mole continuing to write columns Okay, so, I excerpted Gawker’s report that they had hired a mole in Fox News. Mediate was trackin the story hard, and apparently just got the first word from Fox that the case has been cracked.

Mediaite: So, when we asked readers how long it would take for Fox News to find the mole that Gawker had in their midst, did anyone put money down on “24 hours”? If so, it would appear that you just won the jackpot. A Fox News spokesperson revealed to Mediaite and told us that they have already discovered the mole’s identity.

After running down the latest Mitt Romney flip-flop, Jon Stewart turned to an old frenemy of his last night: Fox, and its less-than-objective coverage of the economic recovery. Though the headlines of the low unemployment rates and high stock market closings suggest a turnaround, Fox's talking heads were able to spin it by taking (fake) issue with the national debt, gas prices, and "real" unemployment. Why are Fox News hosts focusing on these three talking points? According to Stewart, it's because of an internal memo that one host, Steve Doocy, read aloud.

In the January issue of British GQ, Michael Wolff has a 2,300-word missive titled “Why I Love Fox News.” Don’t judge this story by its title, because it’s hard to glean what it is Wolff loves about Fox News.

The on-again, off-again editor and biographer of Rupert Murdoch, Wolff goes into detail about his on-again, off-again relationship with Fox News founder and CEO Roger Ailes.

Once, he offered to hire me as a Fox business-news commentator, if that’s what I wanted, but counselled that, if I worked for Fox News, I was never likely to be hired by the liberal outlets to which I was more naturally suited. And then we fell out. Or, in a sense, suddenly engaged in News Corp politics, I sold him out.

Wolff goes on to write about how his Murdoch biography, “The Man Who Owns The News,” was a turning point.

One of the reasons I was invited in 2007 – shortly after Murdoch’s takeover of the Wall Street Journal (an enterprise supported by the profits of Fox News) – to write a biography of the mogul with his full co-operation, was, in part, I came to understand, because I was a useful weapon in the increasing war against Ailes.

Wolff then admits he made what he calls “a devil’s bargain” not to talk to Ailes for the Murdoch book. That’s about the most revealing piece of new information. So, what’s Wolff’s motivation for this piece? A where-are-we-know update? An olive branch to Ailes? It’s hard to tell. But there are thoughts inside 1211 Avenue of the Americas that it has fingerprints of Matthew Freud, Murdoch’s son-in-law, who in early 2010, told the New York Times he was “ashamed and sickened” by Ailes’ “sustained disregard” of the journalistic standards of News Corp.