An October 3 New York magazine report on the cable news networks contains an interesting passage regarding internal divisions within Fox News network. New York magazine reports that, according to a Fox News source, "[p]eople are uncomfortable with Beck...He's not a popular guy within Fox." In particular, Sean “Hannity's not really happy with Beck. Beck is a hired gun who is benefiting from Fox News.” From New York magazine:

Fox, meanwhile, seems on the verge of winning an election with the help of a movement--the tea party--it did much to create. But it, too, is increasingly riven by schisms that mirror those in the Republican Party itself. Bill O'Reilly has gone RINO, palling around with Jon Stewart. Beck, a one-man tea party, is going rogue, and the Establishment is pissed and worried. “People are uncomfortable with Beck,” one person working at Fox News says. “He gets 2 million at five o'clock? He would be dying at HLN. He's not a popular guy within Fox. Hannity's not really happy with Beck. Beck is a hired gun who's benefiting from Fox News.”