Roger Ailes took me by surprise when he told the Boston Globe's Joanna Weiss that he chose not to criticize the top Turner Broadcasting execs, Chairman Phil Kent and CNN President Jim Walton for their ultimate responsibility for the Boston hoax. As Ailes put it, they're "Not the kind of guys who would do this. They're very classy guys." Although, of course, Ailes denounced the "guerrilla marketing" campaign itself.
That's nice of Ailes not to kick a competitor when they're down, so TCG will have step in to be not so nice: The incident happened, and it shouldn't have. If nobody big gets fired as a result of this incident, it will happen again.
