How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

Rolling Stone by Tim Dickinson | May. 30, 2011 (Special Report)

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 Lynn Caporale - Jun. 6, 2011

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 fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993.