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Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the definitely-a-downgrade dept.

neutrino38 writes "The International Herald Tribune reports that Fox News hired Carly Fiorina, ex-HP CEO. Such an interesting move will certainly bring support to those who viewed her as the over-hyped CEO who killed the original corporate engineering culture know as 'the HP way.' The article, off course, does not elaborate on this aspect of things. Slashdot has previously reported her demise from HP and some comments mentioned some HP employee dancing in the cubicles then."

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  1. Re:Best of luck! by sg3000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > I hope she brings Fox the same integrity and good business sense that she brought to HP.

    I'm sure we will.

    Now we'll finally get the answer to the question "Which is harder? Running a first rate company into the ground, or being a Bush economic policy apologist?"

    For those of you keeping score at home, in this corner, we have the person who helped bring down HP's stock by more than 50% and missed earnings targets. In the other corner, we have the economic policy that turned $250 billion budget surpluses under Clinton into $300 billion budget deficit in just two years!

    Sounds like a perfect match.

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  2. Carly did NOT practically wreck HP first.... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...she got in a lot of good practice at Lucent Technologies also.

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  3. [OT] Re:Best of luck! by hal9000(jr) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the other corner, we have the economic policy that turned $250 billion budget surpluses under Clinton into $300 billion budget deficit in just two years!

    While I am not a fan of Bush, the deficit slide can't be blamed entirely on Bushes economic plan. The magnitude, sure, but the slide started long before. The forecasters of the OMB were overly optimistic about the dotcom boom and expected it to last forever. When the bust happened, not only did a lot of money dry up, but the expected capital gains taxes forcast dried up too. That and the balanced budget bill lapsed. Congress started spending. So alot of things happened in the span of a few short years some of which can be blamed on President Bush.

    BTW, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan has a pretty good overview of that happened in addition to prividing insight into how the guy got to be so smart. It's good reading.

    1. Re:[OT] Re:Best of luck! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're conflating issues.

      The claim was the recession that followed the Clinton administration that erased the projected surpluses cannot be blamed upon the Bush administration. The economic decline had already begun during the end of the Clinton administration. Had he remained president for a third term, the same events would have transpired. There were numerous layoffs across the economy, earnings were weak, and everyone except venture capitalists and greedy day trader was projecting the end of Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" with pain. Indeed it would have been even worse had idiots not moved into a housing bubble right afterward, which surprise, surprise, has resulted in a "credit crisis" that is oozing all over the economy.

      The U.S. economy has been floating on nonsense for quite a while. It's a sickness that predates the the Bush administration. 'Real wages' have been falling since the '80s.

      The Bush administration is retarded, for sure. It ramped up spending and cut taxes, in some perverse amalgam of Keynesian and supply-side theory that we'll call "mortgaging the country's future and then looting the capital, while using our power to reduce the financial liability for our interest groups." The disease that afflicts America is just bigger than any one administration's looting, even if this one is ridiculously egregious.

    2. Re:[OT] Re:Best of luck! by hondo77 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      While I am not a fan of Bush, the deficit slide can't be blamed entirely on Bushes economic plan. The magnitude, sure, but the slide started long before.

      Part of leadership is responding to change. How did the Bush administration respond to an impendining budget shortfall? By cutting taxes on the wealthy. How did the Bush administration respond to an actual budget shortfall? By staying the course. How did the Bush administration respond to the increased expenditures required by this unending B.S. war? By staying the course.

      I blame the Bush economic "plan" completely for the budget mess. What about Congress? Congress has been Bush's lapdog for the past six years so the blame still rests with him.

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  4. Re:-1 Flamebait by hey! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not incendiary. It's opinionated and sarcastic.

    Incendiary would be if it were implied that she and her new employers were going to do something bad to you in the future. Incendiary evokes new negative emotions. Sarcastic just rehashes old ones.

    After, this is all just the story of a third rate CEO being hired by a third rate news organization. It's not as if she were being hired by some covert arm of the Republican Party...

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  5. Let Fox News have her! by harshmanrob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's hope she can succeed at running Fox News into the ground. Fortunately, she was unable to do that at HP but if she had stayed any longer, she would have. She can get on the economic segments and tell people how ordering Compaq to fire workers and rehire them at half the pay and no benefits as contractors is a good model for a takeover. And then fired HP employees after the merger, keeping those contractors. She can say how outsourcing is good for the economy as she fired MORE HP workers for those Indian call centers.

    Carly, you're a FUCKING BITCH! (and go ahead, moderate me down to a score of zero, I do not care. She is a bitch who destroyed lives and everyone here knows it).

  6. Why not? by ObiWanStevobi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fits right in with Oliver North, Mark Fuhrman, Geraldo,etc.

    Welcome to the team!

  7. Re:Fox News the News you want to hear. by WindowlessView · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except NPR does it on the tax payers dime.

    So does Fox News, just with a level of indirection. You think many of their corporate advertisers aren't sucking the public tit dry? That the farm bill doesn't subsidize ADM, or the perverse medicare prescription policy isn't a handout to Big Pharma, etc.?

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  8. Re:Fox News the News you want to hear. by Wildclaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except that Fox News isn't a news channel. Telling the truth, however biased, should be a requirement to be called a news channel. And Fox News have openly admitted that they have no intention of telling the truth.

    They are a propaganda/entertainment channel, no more, no less.