Fox Executive Darlene Tipton Fired Over Flight 370 Charity Email

FOX LOGOHuffington Post – by FRAZIER MOORE

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran Fox executive who used her company email account to plan aid for loved ones of the missing Malaysian airplane’s passengers has been fired.

Darlene Tipton, who was vice president of standards and practices for the Fox Cable Networks Group, said Saturday she had wanted to arrange swift financial aid to families and other loved ones, sparing them lengthy court fights. She said she began by emailing Sarah Bajc, an American whose boyfriend, Philip Wood, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and who has made frequent TV appearances since the plane’s March 8 disappearance.  

Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said Tipton’s “conduct and communications” violated company policy. Citing privacy concerns, he declined to discuss particulars, but he said, “As soon as we became aware, we took appropriate steps.” He confirmed that Tipton has left the company.

Tipton was with Fox for a quarter-century before her April 9 dismissal. She said she plans to continue with her initiative, soliciting contributions through the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.

“We want to raise money for families, to give them immediate relief,” Tipton said during a phone interview from her Los Angeles home. “Otherwise, they could be in court for years.”

A condition of accepting the money she hopes to raise: Recipients must waive the right to seek legal remedy.

“If they’re getting money through contributions,” she said, “it isn’t right for them to seek money through legal channels, too.”

But she plans to sue Fox for wrongful termination, said her husband, Ken Tipton, a writer and producer.

He said the idea for the fundraising effort stemmed from his Los Angeles hospital stay last month, shortly after the plane disappeared. He said that while he was under medication he had hallucinations of being with the plane’s passengers and the power of his visions spurred him and his wife to try to help.

“She wanted to do it because it could be done,” he said. “So why not try?”

The investigation into what happened to Flight 370, a Boeing 777 that was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, continued Saturday with searches of a patch of the Indian Ocean seabed.

Tipton’s firing was first reported by Christine Negroni in her blog Flying Lessons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/19/fox-darlene-tipton-fired_n_5179556.html

3 thoughts on “Fox Executive Darlene Tipton Fired Over Flight 370 Charity Email

  1. That is a Bummer, I assume that Fox had an SOP that Darlene should have been up on, But to be fired over it??? Maybe she should have been called in first and then given a lashing first, then have her go back through the pain of SOP Tng. But, Not Fired, man am I disappointed, but company rules, are just that, rules, Sorry to see Darlene go. I don’t know who fired her, but maybe if everyone email Fox and complain, maybe the one who fired her will have a change of heart.

  2. (from the Zionist MSM perspective)

    Tsk….tsk…..We can’t have a charity for the families of flight 370. Especially since the incident is staged. It would be no different than having a charity for the Sandy Hoax children. Too much publicity and people will want to investigate where the money is going to and we’ll find out that the whole thing was a hoax from the start, so therefore we gotta keep control of the narrative any way we can and if that means no charity and firing the person over it, then so be it.

  3. “He said that while he was under medication he had hallucinations of being with the plane’s passengers and the power of his visions spurred him and his wife to try to help.”

    What the hell was he on ??? I’ve been medicated a few times in hospitals (before swearing off them for life, after the last time), and I never came close to hallucinating.

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