As entertainment reporter Courtney Friel bids farewell today to FOX 11 after six years with the station and sister network, she says her first priority will be some quiet time this weekend at home with husband Carter Evans. Her CBS News spouse is now also infamously known as the journalist who got caught in some very intense and scary Big Bear/Christopher Dorner crossfire.

“I knew when I was moving out to Los Angeles that it was always the plan for me to just finish out the last year of my FNC contract at KTTV,” she tells FishbowlLA via email. “My husband and I really wanted to move back to LA to raise our family, and Roger Ailes was so gracious to allow this to happen.”

“It’s been such an honor to work with KTTV and FOX News Channel for the past six years and I really appreciate all the love, support, and guidance I received,” she adds. “I have a few projects I’ll be working on and look forward to exploring more entertainment opportunities both within television news and other alternative entertainment programming platforms.”

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Here’s one of those statements that really deserves a follow-up question: Howard Kurtz at the Daily Beast interviewed Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Ailes offered about National Public Radio,”They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism.”

Kurtz should have asked what Ailes thinks of CSPAN or the BBC – they have to be like tyrannical WWII mass murderers too, right? Totally the same thing?

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Roger Ailes, whom Rupert Murdoch brought in to weave his Republican-istic web around Fox News, has signed on for a five-year extension to his contract, the Los Angeles Times reported.

That means we’re in for five more years of such pleasant closeted lefties as Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Great Van Sustern and the entire Fox news team

Ailes’ new contract extends the key role he plays in News Corp. as chief executive of Fox News and chairman of Fox Television Stations Group.

“Roger has done a remarkable job building Fox News into a force in journalism and built a great asset for News Corp.,” Chief Executive Murdoch said in a statement today announcing the deal. “I have complete confidence in his talent and his editorial judgment.”

Along with his oversight of Fox News and the local stations, Ailes is in charge of the Fox Business Network, MyNetwork TV and Twentieth Television.

“I’m pleased to continue to work for News Corp.,” Ailes said in a statement. “It is a strong and extremely well positioned company. I look forward to carrying out Mr. Murdoch’s legendary vision in the future.”