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Break out the tiny violins: Fox News’ Ailes sees dip in pay

September 02, 2010 7:14 pm ET by Karl Frisch

Roger Ailes -- the Fox News boss who apparently talked News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch into giving that $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors’ Association -- didn’t make as much money this year as he did last year.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Georg Szalai reports:

[Rupert Murdoch’s] salary was unchanged at $8.1 million, while his performance-based bonus dropped to $4.4 million. His total compensation compared with $22.2 million a year earlier. The figures were detailed in a regulatory filing late Tuesday.

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Fox News head Roger Ailes made only $14.0 million, down from $22.1 million the year before, even though he had a higher bonus and higher incentive plan compensation. The decline was driven by a dip in the theoretical value of pension and other earnings, after a big pension payout last year.

Tags: Fox News Channel, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (September 02, 2010 7:51 pm ET)
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      Ailes must feel so humiliated right now...I wonder if he'll stay on at FOX. Or open up his own whorehouse...?

      <sarcasm>
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (September 02, 2010 9:50 pm ET)
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        Watch out Rupert. I know Ailes has been talking to Karl behind your back.
        If some group offers a dollar to buy Faux Gnues, follow the money, just for your own protection of course.
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    • Author by cst (September 02, 2010 11:04 pm ET)
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      And the guy who's driven away all his advertisers makes HOW much more than Ailes?
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    • Author by RKAllen (September 02, 2010 11:52 pm ET)
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      [http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg273/jojo31_2008/worldssmallestviolin.gif]
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    • Author by MickD (September 03, 2010 7:48 am ET)
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      I wonder what that glutton buys with all his sellout money...pig tonight for dinner again?
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