Stephen Chao (now ex) President of Fox spills his guts on reddit. - Polidicks

[quote]My name is Stephen Chao. I was fired as President of Fox for hiring a male model to strip during a speech I gave on Standards and Practices in Television. Prior to my job at Fox I worked at the National Enquirer magazine and chased Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett around Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and investigated UFOs over Uraguay. After being dismissed from Fox, I got a job at McDonalds in Redondo Beach, California. My friend introduced me to Reddit and it’s like visiting an exotic foreign country that is right next door. Redditors are like members of some kabbalah temple underneath the city of Jerusalem of the internet. [url=http://i.imgur.com/aOGbL.jpg]To prove my identity, here is my photo.[/url] I now run a website called WonderHowTo.com in Los Angeles. (I am actually looking for a Community Manager so I thought I would mention it here as this is a remarkable community. If you know anyone who has admin'd communities is incredibly interested in DIY, has an OCD obsession with a certain topic or would otherwise be a perfect fit for this job email me [email]community@wonderhowto.com[/email]. Reddit Karma will be considered as a qualification.) Without further ado, Ask Me Anything.[/quote] [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ejo7w/i_was_president_of_fox_got_fired_by_rupert/[/url] Looks legit to me, but if its found to be a fake I apologize in advance.

How do you go from being the president of Fox to working at McDonalds? Then again, that's what he gets for running Fox.

He worked for one of those bullshit mags I find at the check out line in grocery stores, then became president of Fox? Explains a LOT.

sounds like a medical issue or something is he gonna be okay?

[quote]for hiring a male model to strip during a speech[/quote] what

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;26608335]what[/QUOTE] [quote]In the Netherlands in the 60's, the government decided to allow nudity on television, while simultaneously banning violence. This was their emphatic statement that violence was not acceptable, and that human nakedness would be (previously banned) acceptable. They wanted to realign television standards and practices to mirror their view of what was social versus anti-social. To demonstrate this policy shift, the government filmed a naked person for 24 hours on national television, a kind of Warholian exercise in the mundane. It made a huge point in terms of standards and practices. Violent movies/tv shows were taken off national television. In my opinion, a bold move by the Government that radically adjusted the Standards and Practices of a population. In my speech, I was discussing the Netherlands television example and posing the question whether the sight of a naked person was more offensive than seeing a violent murder of a person. I happen to believe the Netherlands government did a very positive thing....that would be difficult to pull off in the context of a puritanical FCC.[/quote] [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ejo7w/i_was_president_of_fox_got_fired_by_rupert/c18l2nn[/url]

ask him why he made fox so shitty

[QUOTE=Political Gamer;26608383][url]http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ejo7w/i_was_president_of_fox_got_fired_by_rupert/c18l2nn[/url][/QUOTE] it wasn't the fact that it was nudity itself, but rather that it was at fox headquarters of all places

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26608193]How do you go from being the president of Fox to working at McDonalds? [/QUOTE] He might've been a manager, which is a partially respectful job.

Yeah, this is referring to what this man named Stephen Chao did way back in June 1992, just 10 weeks into his presidency of Fox network. According to wikipedia: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Chao#The_Fox_termination_scandal[/url] [quote]In June 1992 at a retreat in Snowmass, Colorado, just ten weeks after taking position as President of Fox Television stations, Chao spoke at a management conference for Fox executives, board members and world dignitaries, including Rupert Murdoch and wife Anna Murdoch, and former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and wife Lynne Cheney. Chao spoke on “The Threat to Democratic Capitalism Posed by Modern Culture”. Strongly emphasising that television programs tend to be less critical of violence than nudity and sexuality, Chao hired a local waiter/model Marco Iacovelli to strip naked during his speech to illustrate his point about censorship and that network standards were not keeping pace with modern day experience. Not at all amused, Murdoch fired Chao immediately afterwards. [/quote] Whether this post on Reddit is him or not, I'm not sure. But I wouldn't be surprised if he is, it would be a fairly random person to impersonate.

Wow. That's a stupid ass reason to get fired.

did you guys not look at the picture he took. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/aOGbL.jpg[/img_thumb]

I'm pretty sure it's him. I thought it was odd he STILL works at a McDonalds though, I mean I get doing it temporarily to get away from things but damn, really?

He seems like an incredibly insightful man.

[QUOTE=Nyaos;26615946]I'm pretty sure it's him. I thought it was odd he STILL works at a McDonalds though, I mean I get doing it temporarily to get away from things but damn, really?[/QUOTE] He said he wanted to get a job that you didn't have to bring home.