Shine was a loyal lieutenant to Mr. Ailes, and his continued role in newsroom leadership has been cited by women’s groups and some newsroom employees as a sign<br />that Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, is not serious about reforming the workplace culture embodied by Mr. Ailes and Mr. O’Reilly.<br />But Mr. Shine’s job security has been a matter of intense speculation inside Fox News’s Manhattan newsroom, which is still reeling from the forced exit of Bill O’Reilly in the wake of revelations<br />that Mr. O’Reilly and Fox News had paid millions to settle accusations of harassment.<br />Several employees said that one sentiment heard in the newsroom is<br />that if the network could fire Mr. O’Reilly — its highest-rated anchor and a source of tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue — then no employee was safe.<br />“Somebody HIGH UP AND INSIDE F. N.C.<br />is trying to get an innocent person fired,” Mr. Hannity wrote, referring to a report in New York magazine<br />that Mr. Shine’s support from the Murdoch family, which controls Fox News Channel, was wavering.<br />Shine has not been publicly accused of the sort of aggressive harassment or coercion that was repeatedly attributed to Mr. Ailes and Mr. O’Reilly.<br />Sean Hannity Defends Executive as Fox News Turmoil Continues -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and EMILY STEELAPRIL 27, 2017<br />Swirling tensions at Fox News burst into public view on Thursday as one of its stars, Sean Hannity, spoke<br />out in defense of an embattled executive at the center of an expanding culture clash inside the network.
