Mr. Wigdor said that Mr. Beckel had tried to persuade his client to withdraw the complaint during<br />a meeting with Fox News’s new executive vice president for human resources, Kevin Lord.<br />Fox News Fires Prime-Time Regular for Racially Insensitive Remark -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMAY 19, 2017<br />Another of Fox News’s prime-time personalities has been accused of wrongdoing<br />and is leaving, the latest setback in a season of tumult for the cable network.<br />Bob Beckel, a host of the 9 p.m. talk show “The Five,” was fired on Friday<br />because of an insensitive remark he made to an African-American employee, Fox News said.<br />Mr. Wigdor also represents 11 Fox News employees in a class-action racial discrimination suit against the network.<br />The lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, said on Friday that his client had been trying to service Mr. Beckel’s computer when Mr. Beckel stood up abruptly<br />and walked out of his office, explaining that he was leaving because the employee was black.<br />The network said that Mr. Lord responded to the employee’s complaint within seven minutes of receiving it, and<br />that Mr. Beckel apologized to the employee on Friday, shortly after learning of his dismissal.
