It's not unusual to resent one's boss.
But Roger Ailes' resentment of his - Rupert Murdoch - led him to dig up dirt on the boss' then wife - Wendi Deng Murdoch. The resulting piece was going to be published in the digital tabloid Gawker. But that never happened.
Such details of the Ailes-Murdoch conflict came out in Episode 3 of "The Loudest Voice in the Room."
For viewers, the overall takeaway from Episode 3 might be that in corporate life no one is to be trusted. And no one can assume he or she is "safe."
The intrigue has layers and layers of deceit and manipulation. In the end, not even Ailes himself could count on job security. Subordinate Gretchen Carlson did him in.
This notion of stealth moves brings the world back to when author of "The Loudest Voice in the Room" Gabriel Sherman first published the book.
It was then that Ailes' personal public relations representative Bob Dilenschneider spent $15K to place an ad in The New York Times Book Review section. It to promote a vanity biography of Ailes.
Likely the objective was to distract attention from Sherman's negative book. But, what happened was that the scheme backfired. And Sherman got plenty of unexpected publicity. That could go down in history as The Battle of the Books. Here are more details.
No wonder so many smart people, of all generations, are opting for self-employment, including entrepreneurship.
Sure, there is the challenge of getting, holding, and scaling business. Also, no employer is ponying up the money for the health insurance. But there is more control over more of the moving parts and the people than when one is an employee.
In addition, parents might be warning their offspring, especially daughters, to steer clear of pursuing careers in broadcast media.
The ratings for this series haven't been too hot. However, some enterprising group could repackage it and bring it back in a more profitable way. That would give greater exposure of the myriad ways Ailes abused power.
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