What's with the mutual admiration society between Fox News and Scott Sherman?

Scott Sherman is the attorney for the Akers and Shawn Hornbeck. We've noticed he's given multiple exclusive interviews to Fox News. On February 5th, he spoke with Fox News' GRETA VAN SUSTEREN about the forcible sodomy charges against Michael Devlin. On February 1st, he spoke to her about photos of Shawn released by Fox news. In the February 1st interview, part of their conversation went as follows:

VAN SUSTEREN: ... if you think that we're coming close to the line — because the last thing any of us here in the media — and I don't just mean here at FOX News, but none of us wants to sort of step over the line and interfere with the prosecution. But I assume you'll give us a heads up if we're near that point.

SHERMAN: Greta, we always feel that we defer to your professionalism. You guys do a great job at FOX, and your show in particular. And we really appreciate the forum to come on and talk about the family and talk about Shawn.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, I hope you come back. And again, give us a heads up if you think we're going too far. You can get our phone number. It's pretty easy to find us. Thank you, Scott. We'll see you soon.

SHERMAN: Greta. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any time.

This oozing adoration exchange seems odd, especially coming from the attorney of the boy who Fox's BILL O'REILLY criticized as staying willingly with Devlin and "enjoying" his life with Devlin.

Then, in an interview with Van Sustern on February 5th, O'Reilly says, "The only way they could possibly introduce any reasonable doubt into this case, would be to say 'the boys went along willingly.'"

Yeah, FOX does a GREAT job, all right. First Bill O'Reily blames Shawn for staying with Devlin, then the network decides to release photos of the boy holding a gun and wearing a bandana while in Devlin's clutches. I'm wondering if the interview with Sherman where it's emphasized how much he loves Fox is Fox's attempt at damage control, which begs a question. How did they get Sherman to bestow such accolades upon them after the O'Reilly incident, and why is Sherman giving them exclusive interviews (unless he's implicitly suggesting that Fox's Bill O'Reilly was RIGHT)?

In other words, how much did Fox pay?

One final curiosity -- During the February 5th interview, Sherman tells Van Sustern, "A lot of these charges, the speculation was out there — when were they going to come? How many? What were the nature of the charges going to be? And until the prosecutors get everything in order, you really don’t know. And then today we found out that something was brewing. We found out, like everyone else did, at the press conference by Mr. McCulloch..."

Yet St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloh, at the press conference, stated, "We have discussed this with the families and they understand. They knew the charges were coming. We let them know this was about to happen."

Sherman's assertion that the family first found out about the charges at McCulloh's press conference seems somewhat unbelievable considering the prosecution conducted extensive interviews with both boys (upon which the probable cause statement for the new charges was based) and McCulloh himself stated he had previously talked to the families and let them know the charges were coming.