The next 12 months, when Gretchen Carlson, a CBS reporter and 1989 Miss America pageant winner, joined Fox News, she was less than no illusions about what people today considered of the network’s anchors. "I like to joke that when I joined Fox News I strike the ‘bimbo trifecta’: Former Miss America. "I was enraged," claimed the female who claims Ailes harassed her as an 18-calendar year-old in the ’60s.