Ex-Fox News, NPR Execs Team On New Site

Former Fox News executive, Ken LaCorte, has enlisted former NPR news boss Michael Oreskes and former Fox News executive editor John Moody to join him in creating LaCorte News, which he said will be a truly “fair and balanced” alternative in these polarized times.

FNC Exec Who Wrote Inflammatory Column Exits

Fox News Pulls Executive’s Olympics Column

Fox News has removed an online column by EVP and executive editor John Moody following intense criticism online and from gay rights activists, who roundly attacked the piece. Moody had written on Wednesday: “Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger.’ It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to ‘Darker, Gayer, Different.’ If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work.”