How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network Full Story »

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by Gerald Zuckier - May. 30, 2011

Fear, in fact, is precisely what Ailes is selling:

America is absolutely the most terrified country; terrified to go abroad lest they get caught up in violence, terrified that foreigners will come over here to do violence to them, terrified to go to urban centers in case they get mugged, terrified to go into rural areas in case they get murdered by crazed hillbillies, terrified to stay home because of home invasions. They are terrified to let their kids play outdoors, terrified they will lose their jobs, terrified they will lose their healthcare, terrified they will lose their savings, terrified they will lose their house, terrified the government will take away their guns, terrified the government will force them to pay for health insurance, terrified the government will take away their lightbulbs. Black citizens of Darfur who are in danger of getting massacred have a lighter outlook on life than Americans do.

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