Roger Ailes Allegedly Caught Spying on Newspaper Reporters
Gawker is reporting that Roger Ailes was caught spying on staffers who worked for his upstate New York newspaper, the Putnam County News and Recorder. Ailes owns the paper, and according to Gawker, he was having security personnel from News Corporation trail an editor – Joe Lindsley – and several reporters who worked there, trying to catch them “saying mean things about him.”
If that’s true, it’s weird. If this is true, it’s even weirder:
Before he [Lindsley] resigned, several sources say, the Aileses dealt with him with what one former staffer describes as ‘an inappropriate level of intimacy.’
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