‘You’d have to be a half-witted martian not to see that women’s value on Fox is sexual.’ — Filmmaker Alexis Bloom is exposing Fox News and former CEO Roger Ailes in her new doc.
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‘It was clear that women were objectified at Fox. You’d have to be, like, a half-witted martian You know women’s value on Fox is sexual.’
Alexis Bloom directed a documentary about former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
‘What wasn’t clear was that Roger was kind of priming women. For the enjoyment of primarily a male demographic out there in the world but that they were also being used kind of for the pleasure of people inside the building.’
‘Roger was one of the first people to be deposed in the Me Too movement. We didn’t know it was going to be a movement. You know, he had an allegation of sexual harassment leveled against him and it ended up costing him his job.
He is defined by what he did to women and by what they did in turn to him.’
In July 2016, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit accusing Ailes of ‘pervasive sexual harassment.’ Two weeks later Ailes resigned.
‘Bear in mind he’d had one before. It had been settled internally you know for three million dollars and nothing had happened. Bill O’Reilly had had multiple cases nothing had happened.’
‘When Gretchen Carlson filed her suit and when in fact he ended up resigning or being fired depending on which way you look at it. We knew that there was a chink in the armor and that this was a good time to make a film about him.’
Bloom says she was first inspired to tell Ailes’ story to discover how America has become so politically divided.
‘My kids are American. My husband’s American. You know I’m in the process of applying for citizenship so I cared deeply about America. Roger Ailes has been incredibly influential for decades. He’s important in terms of understanding Donald Trump. I mean Donald Trump I don’t think would be he wouldn’t be president had there not been a Roger Ailes.
You can sort of see the arc of the rise of the right and the the rise of, you know, I call it ‘flamethrower TV’ where kind of the more outrageous things you say, the better.’
‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’ also exposed additional harassment at Fox.
‘I didn’t know this going into the film, but some of the women at Fox get settlements, and then you have to sign not only a non-disclosure which means you’ll never talk about it, but you have to sign an agreement that you’ll never seek employment again from 21st Century Fox ever in your lifetime or any of its affiliates. So you’re kind of being punished for something that happened to you. If the Murdochs are going to do something, you know, truly kind of admirable in terms of what’s happened at FOX It’s not like saying, Oh I’m so sorry it happened to women. It’s bring them back.That’s that’s a big point. We try to make in this film. There’s this woman called Tamara Holder and she said, all we wanted to do was work.’
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