Advice for 40 Years in the Business

Fox News Washington correspondent Doug McKelway retired after 40 years in the business and he gave a little advice to young Journalist as he walked out the door for the last time at FNC.

In a video he posted to Facebook, McKelway said thanks to former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, saying,”When I was hired here, I had to meet with him. No one got hired here on air without meeting with Roger Ailes, so that came, he wanted to meet with me, I went to his office, he looked at me for about five seconds as I walked in, and then said this, it’s a direct quote: ‘Well you’re a good-looking guy, but you’re no Megyn Kelly.”

He then went on to give this advice, “On the subject of age and him saying to me ‘you’re a good-looking guy,’ a point for young people who are entering this business or who are now embogged in it. You make a deal with the devil when you work in television news, you make a Faustian bargain.” He then added, “ou may be the smartest person in your class, you might be a Harvard grad, you might be willing to work 24/7, seven days a week, eighteen hours a day. But you got hired in part because of your looks, and that’s the Faustian bargain,” he claimed, adding, “Over time you start to age, you don’t look as well as you did, and there’s another young crop of young, good-looking, talented people who are making their own Faustian bargain.”

He concluded his advice with, “When that day comes for you to leave, a piece of advice: Don’t leave embittered, don’t leave feeling like a victim. Leave with your head held high and with graciousness. With grace.”

H/T Mediaite

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