Fox News Faces Added Claims of Employee Race Bias in New Suits

By Bob Van Voris and Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

Eleven current and former Fox News employees filed a class-action race-bias lawsuit accusing the company of turning a blind eye for years to systemic abuse of workers with darker skin in an attempt to cover for the alleged behavior of Bill O’Reilly and others.

The company’s general counsel and head of human resources both allegedly ignored complaints for years about the “abhorrent and blatant” discrimination by a well-connected employee, because she “knew too much” about O’Reilly, as well as former Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes and ex-Chief Financial Officer Mark Kranz, ...