let's start off with david rhodes, who's here in the media show studio. hi, david.nks for coming in. thanks. — thank you guys for having me. let's go back quite a few years to when you were vice president of news for fox. how did you get that gig? i got that gig because i worked my way up from running the autocue. honestly. i started working there in 1996 at the beginning of this career, and, basically, they hired 700 people about the size of the newsroom we now have working in english at sky, and we're doing that over the space of about three months. so, not to diminish my credentials for that opportunity, but i mean, basically, if you could get in the door, they were hiring a lot of people in a really short span of time and you sort of work your way up. that was my entry—level opportunity. and when you were at fox, you presumably were aware that it was becoming quite a divisive presence within the american media. well, i left in 2008. i worked for news corp a second time when i first moved to this country, at that time to spec out what later became talktv. and the