How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
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Posted by Jon Mitchell - May 30, 2011 - 9:15 AM PDT
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Jon Mitchell - May 30, 2011 - 9:16 AM PDT
An essential story that has taken too long to be written---a look under the surface at the origin and history of Fox News.
As a political consultant, Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial ... More »
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Here we have an article that indicts the credibility of Roger Ailes with his own quotes. His relationship with Murdoch and Murdoch's family is particularly interesting. It is made clear, however, that Ailes is the prime architect of the huge propaganda machine that has become Fox News.
Unlike the Soviet and Chinese model where the media served the state, here we have a paradigm much closer to that of Goebbels, where the media sets the agenda for the party and in either case the end justifies the means;not exactly a journalistic virtue.
Even those who disliked the way Ailes runs his network joined in the display of fealty, given the culture of intimidation at Fox News. “It’s like the Soviet Union or ... More »
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Fox, bad news for America. One interesting note is that Fox maximizes profits by not employing reporters. Lies are cheaper to manufacture than news. Another excellent investigation and report from the Rolling Stone.
As for actual journalists? “Fuck ’em,” Ailes said. “It’s not a press conference – it’s a television show. Our television show. And the press ... More »
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This article lays out clearly with historical back up what is happening at Fox, it also explains why. This is great journalism
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“I quit politics,” he has claimed, “because I hated it.” But an examination of his career reveals that Ailes has used Fox News to pioneer a new form ... More »
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It is great journalism because finally somebody in the mainstream media has yelled out that the "fair and balanced" faux News, "has no clothes"! Under Roger Ailes Fox News is a "political campaign - a 24/7 political campaign " for the Republican and Tea Party! And this quote says it all : The result of this concerted campaign of disinformation is a viewership that knows almost nothing about what's going on in the world"....A study by the University of Maryland reveals "ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network". The author goves lots of verifiable evidence in the article to support these quotes and that Ailes goal with the network is not to reveal facts but to push right wing and often ... More »
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