The future yr, when Gretchen Carlson, a CBS reporter and 1989 Miss America pageant winner, joined Fox News, she was under no illusions about what people imagined of the network’s anchors. "I like to joke that when I joined Fox News I hit the ‘bimbo trifecta’: Former Miss America. "I was enraged," reported the woman who claims Ailes harassed her as an 18-calendar year-aged in the ’60s.