Fox News hires Carly Fiorina, ex-chief of HP – International Herald Tribune — This is rich. Since a person like this is always looking for a real job (aka millions of dollars in benefits and stock) she’ll have nothing to say about anything, nor insight since it could hurt her chances for real money. I suspect this operation is headed down the same path as Portfolio — the soft business magazine without insight.
Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard, has signed on as a contributor with the soon-to-start Fox News business news channel.
Fiorina was one of the most divisive figures in corporate America during nearly six years at HP. Fox did not specify her role at the new channel.
“We are proud to have her join FBN as a contributor,” Kevin Magee, executive vice president of Fox News, said in a statement Tuesday. “Carly Fiorina is one of the foremost business leaders of our time.”
She’ll be the token blonde reporting from the sidelines. Fox will want someone really corrupt to babble the hard stuff.
Although she didn’t do too badly at evil at HP.
“Carly Fiorina is one of the foremost business leaders of our time.”
Oh. Good. Grief.
#2 – Well… She did do whatever it was she did for HP…
…you know, when you get to so high a level in a company, its hard for me to imagine what sort of “work” a CEO really does… Or is carrying those massive checks to the bank pretty much the job?
Her famous quote after canning 7,000 employees : “There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.’
And, she, too was fired for abysmal job performance
… then rewarded with a 21 millions dollar severance bonus!
Holy smokes, I’m beginning to despise the super rich.
Well, she DID made HP gobble up Compaq.
#4, Greg,
And guess why Fox wants her.
#4 – Holy smokes, I’m beginning to despise the super rich.
I am so far out in front of you on this issue 🙂
I started hating them in the 80s…
Shit floats, sometimes all too often.
I’m surprised you think that Fox Business Channel is somehow headed down the same path as Portfolio, John. That magazine doesn’t have the cachet that Fox will have as a result of New Corp’s Dow Jones acquisition, and whatever DNA pooling they’ll have between the divisions (I assume that was the purpose).
It will be interesting to see if the real competition between CNBC and Fox turns out to be who can be the loudest cheerleader for free market economics. Advocating markets unfettered by regulation is often implied or inferred as patriotic in the corporatocracy, and Roger Ailes takes a back seat to no one when it comes to presiding over a show of patriotism. CNBC will certainly rise to that competition.
Outsourced HP support to India. Alienated corporate clients with abysmal customer service. Lowest bid supply contracts for PC component suppliers. R&D externalised to third world, third party product developers. Your typical modern model of management, asset strip to make the books balance, burn the business down to get relief, leave before anyone notices.
Is that what an evil person looks like?
>>the cachet that Fox will have as a result of New Corp’s Dow
>>Jones acquisition, and whatever DNA pooling they’ll have
>>between the divisions
If Fox pools their bodily fluids with the WSJ, I’m cancelling my subscription. That’s all I need, Loofah Pad O’Reilly and Ann Coulter telling me about business.
MM 😉 Even the most literal interpretation of my phrase “DNA pooling” is probably less scandalous than what the reality is likely to be. For example, Murdoch’s plans for the WSJ are to expand its international presence, and to expand its political coverage. Yikes! Only time will tell what type of business network he has put together, but with Roger Ailes at the helm, I can’t imagine it being unbiased.
Ailes heads up Fox now, but he put in some time as a Republican advisor (back in Nixonian times), and he was the executive producer of Rush Limbaugh’s short-lived TV show, just to cite a couple of examples that might indicate a tiny bit of bias. Interestingly, he didn’t go to journalism school, though, which he considers a plus.
#10, edwinrogers, I’ve a friend who’s a top level mgt. exec at HP for network cust. svc., and he confirms everything you said and adds this,
“Nice job, bimbo. Now go suck someone’s tie on TV.”
I’m certain he meant it in the nicest possible way…
This channel is never going to take off, i mean i listened to some of them and theys sound like they have no idea what they area doing, im stickin with MSNBC baby! yea!
I was hoping to never have to see or hear about that incompetent and tremendously annoying woman again.
Hopefully she gets fired rather quickly.
Gary Marks is afraid of bias because of Roger Ailes’ former ties to a Republican President but I never hear any concern of bias from all of those that are actually on the air that have worked in Democrat administrations. It’s funny how if it leans left it isn’t bias but if it leans right, watch out.
#18 Jim, that’s a fair criticism. The main difference I see is the degree of bias, and the fact that it’s at the level of the network president. I agree that it’s almost inevitable that at one time or another, some of the on-air personalities and behind the scenes staff will have had political ties. But to have Rush Limbaugh’s former producer as the network president has made a joke of the Fox News slogan “Fair and Balanced,” and it doesn’t bode well for their new business channel either. I had hoped that someone else would be in charge, independent of Ailes.
Mark, I can’t agree with your logic. If I followed that line of thinking, I would have to consider Chris Matthews’ show a joke as well since he worked for Carter and we mustn’t forget Bill Moyers who worked for LBJ. And I guess you could compare Ted Turner to Roger Ailes. With some of the far left comments that Turner has made I guess he’s not qualified to own his media empire.
Maybe we should just leave them all alone and let the consumer decide. I think that most of us are intelligent enough to filter what we hear and sort it all out.
#17 – Hopefully she gets fired rather quickly.
But she really needs the work, and in a tough economy like this its hard to land the really good jobs…
🙂
I think it is great! I hope she does to Fox what she did to HP! Talk about killing two tirds with one stone!
Skank!
I suppose an incompetent overpaid former CEO adds a nice balance for the lineup of convicted perjurers, race baiters and draft dodging chickenhawks.
First Lucent Technologies then HP/Compaq now Fox? When are the higher ups going to open their eyes…? Let’s give someone else a golden parachute and rip hard working US citizens’ lives to shreds while they outsource our jobs to other countries for what, the good of the US of A? Yea I’m all for that; NOT!