Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News

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."

Clearly staffing up for battle w/CNBC

[Presence1]

As mentioned in TFA, Fox is planning to start a new business news channel, to compete with CNBC. Interesting that TFA makes no mention of her anticipated role in the new organization.

The man they hired to run the new news channel, Roger Ailes, also helped start CNBC.

The WSJ has an agreement with CNBC to provide content. The WSJ also just got bought by Rupert Murdoch's empire, which also owns Fox. Ailes says that there won't be a conflict.

Ailes also gives a lot more info here in this interview:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119160938630350371.html [wsj.com]

Should be interesting.

Re:Is this the 'real' Carly Fiorina??

[Dielectric]

That would be pretexting.

Obligatory "screw you!!1!" to Carly for messing up the calculator division.

Re:Fox News the News you want to hear.

[Anonymous Coward]

in contrast to the liberal outlook promulgated by most other outlets.

Show me a single news channel half as left-wing as Counterpunch.org and I might believe you.

Oh wait, you can't. [whatliberalmedia.com]

Skank Was Always On the Dark Side

[curmudgeon99]

This is no surprise. Having worked under the skank when she was at HP, I'm not surprised she's in league with the slime over at Fox. She was the worst imperial style CEO who--though HP had just inherited several new Gulfstream jets when they purchased Compaq, Carly went out and bought two brand new jets (one which was reserved for she and her husband alone) at the same time that several thousand contractors and employees were getting axed. She was a nightmare.

Re:Fox News the News you want to hear.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that 6% of NPR's total funding that comes from state and local governments is really a heavy burden on the tax payers.

Roger Ailes? News?

[dpbsmith]

Surely Roger Ailes was the head propagandist for Richard Nixon's campaign? The one that designed the non-issues-oriented feel-good ads? The one that combatted Nixon's reputation for being an geeky, aloof guy by putting him into controlled situations where he appeared to be surrounded by ordinary citizens asking "spontaneous," scripted, softball questions?

Re:Fox News the News you want to hear.

[Entropius]

NPR isn't as turbo-liberal as you might believe.

Sure, some stations carry blatantly left-wing programs like "Alternative Radio". But nearly every station carries "Marketplace", a financial news show that takes as an axiom "an unfettered free market is ultimately a public good". That's a center-right position. The news shows (All Things Considered, Morning Edition) tend to be fairly middle-of-the-road, since they mostly just give the news without a whole lot of spin. The few "opinion" segments, by people like Daniel Schorr, tend to be pretty nonpartisan.

Re:In fairness to Carly, she was correct.

[jayslambast]

Vision and execution are two separate things. The idea for the merger has been speculated as being the Compaq CEO's idea (look what he did for Worldcom). So giving her full credit for this one decision may not be completely right. She did a great job selling it to Wall Street and Retirement fund managers. But just because she made one right call, there were 100s of others she missed.

  What really did her in was how she ran things afterwards that was the issue. She set unrealistic goals (saying we were going to grow by 15% when the industry was declining). She said something to the effect if we didn't have the bar set high enough, we never would try to beat it. Her over promising the world to the market setup us up for failure, especially considering if would make it impossible to get a company bonus requirements. As a matter of fact, she would never tell us how we were evaluated so we could try to hit them. This was one of many things she did that effected moral in the rank and file. She would change the company's focus several times just when we were gaining steam. This inconsistent direction alienated us even more, to the point where feedback showed we had little faith in upper management.

    So even though she was a great speaker, it takes more than a few good ideas to make a decent CEO. I would give Hurd the credit for increasing the stock price and Dell dropping the ball for the last 3 or 4 plays over Carly's few decision that remain today. Now if he would stop reducing our benefits in the name of "Matching the industry average", I would be happier.

btw, I would say there are still some excellent engineers left at HP, and they are helping train the next set of them. The group I'm in is still open working together, mentoring, and trying to keep moral up under our current contraints. We may not have the HP way, but looking at the way the industry is, very few companies that are over 30 yrs old have their original cultures left... But it would be nice it if came back again.