Twenty-five years after its founding, a sit-down with the CEO of America’s most watched and most polarizing network, whose employees laud her for cleaning up a toxic workplace even as critics assail the channel for spreading misinformation and undermining democracy.
More superficial reminders of Ailes’ reign also have been swept away. One of Scott’s initiatives was a top-to-bottom renovation of the company’s Avenue of the Americas headquarters. Gone are the forbidding wooden doors, the dark faux-mahogany paneling and ragged carpeting that in later years was held together with tape. “I used to say, I cannot believe we make all this money but we have black duct tape on the floor,” recalls Scott.
Today, the color palette is cool blue and pewter with glowing LED pillars, sleek modern furniture and Knoll desk chairs. The centerpiece of the overhaul is the 7,600-square-foot second-floor newsroom, unveiled in January 2018 to replace a subterranean studio. “For me, it was important to get that group out of the basement, get them windows,” says Scott.
Employees say Scott’s internal workplace reforms make Fox a safer place to work, but under her reign, say critics, it also has become a more dangerous network. Fox has long been defined by its primetime opinion host. In the Ailes era, it was Bill O’Reilly’s ersatz everyman. Today, it’s the performative outrage of Tucker Carlson, whose top-rated show is watched by more than 3 million viewers each night.
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