CHARLIE ROSE (CO-HOST): Is this an effort by Fox [News] in a sense to say, we need to put behind us the Ailes regime?
DAVID FOLKENFLIK: Oh I think they’ve kind of tied a bow on this and kind of said this is a culture shift. 21st Century Fox, its the sons who now run it with their father Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, James Murdoch, are saying 21st Century Fox is a going to be a 21st century company and they’re trying to show they have changed the culture. The guy at the top is gone, they have made a payment, they’ve made an apology and they feel they are sending a message.
GAYLE KING (CO-HOST): But there is only one man who is gone. Do you think that other culture issues have to be address? We were having a great discussion in the makeup room this morning. Can one man just be responsible for this type of culture?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, certainly, you know, there have been waves of women who have come forward to talk to internal legal review about this and they've said that Roger Ailes sexually harassed them and did so in ways that seem almost classic quid pro quo, that is he said I’ll advance your career if you submit to this. That said, people being accused, credibly in some ways, of enabling this have stayed on or on even been elevated. The new co-president elevated to that role to help run it under Rupert Murdoch. Bill Shine, he was accused by some of the women who have come forward of helping Ailes to do this. The head of the human resources department, the general counsel who did a secret settlement in 2011 to pay a woman $3 million who alleged that for years she had been sexually extorted by Ailes to keep her career going at Fox News.
NORAH O’DONNELL (CO-HOST): This is Laurie Luhn?
FOLKENFLIK: Laurie Luhn made that accusation on the pages of the New York magazine. And the general counsel is still in place. Now let's be clear. She claims she didn't know there was any credibility to the accusations being made. Ailes just told her to settle it. But a lot of people are still in place who helped sort of surround him so there are people who say the culture hasn't changed yet. I would watch what happens after the November elections and after the Murdoch family tries to figure out how the leadership should look.
