Saturday, December 18, 2004
Fox News Channel and Emmy Awards (or the lack there of)
Source: Broadcasting and Cable Poor Fox News, it seems it got treated like Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer and wasn't allowed to participate in any news organization games a few years back. And now they take it upon themselves to not participate at all. FNC CEO Roger Ailes says don't look for FNC to participate until the process of voting for the winners change. FNC would win for being the biggest pile of CRAP on TV. Anyway if you're interested, posted below is what he had to say about the awards. Heck you almost feel sorry for FNC. NOT!
Ailes said not to look for Fox to participate in the news Emmy awards competition anytime soon. Ailes resigned from the National Academy of Arts & Sciences after Fox went five years without even a nomination.
"Now, what the public doesn't know about these Emmy Awards," Ailes told Lamb, "is you get to vote for yourself, and you can pack the panels to vote, which I didn't realize.... [W]e had some fine journalists here doing fine work. And because we were the upstarts, and the other guys had been in the club for a long time, they decided to block us."
When Lamb asked if Ailes saw Fox reentering the news Emmy race, Ailes said he didn’t think so.
"The internal processes have to clean up," Ailes said. "There has to be a real blue-ribbon panel, not a bunch of interns running around hotels eating the bagels and chasing each other.
"There have to be serious people watching serious work..... I’m not denigrating everybody who’s won awards. There’s some fine work there. But they didn’t want us to play. So we decided we won’t play.
"We’ll just get the audience. The award we win every day is the ratings. You know, they can say all they want, but we don’t tell the American people who to watch. They make that decision.
"If the American people voted on these awards, what you see in the ballroom would be totally different. We’d have 100 percent of the awards and the other guys would have none."
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