Roger Ailes's (Other) Legacy
Remembering the founder of Fox News also demands remembering the many women in his orbit—women who refused to be silent.
Karem Alsina, a makeup artist formerly employed by Fox News, shared a memory of her time at the network with New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman. The women anchors of Fox, Alsina recalled, would sometimes come to see her before they went to private meetings with Roger Ailes—the man who, until last year, was Fox’s chairman and CEO. “They would say, ‘I’m going to see Roger, gotta look beautiful!’” Alsina recalled. She also recalled this: “One of them came back down after a meeting, and the makeup on her nose and chin was gone.”
Ailes, who died this week
