NYT obit for Ailes sounds like it was written by a DUer

[ProudLib72]

Roger Ailes: The Man Who Mined a Divided America

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/business/media/roger-ailes-jim-rutenberg.html

Before Donald Trump rode the anger of forgotten (white) America to an “America First” presidency, before Breitbart News became a “platform for the alt-right” and before there were “alternative facts” and dueling versions of reality, Roger Ailes saw a divided country but an undivided news media. And he set out to change it.

Empowered by Rupert Murdoch, who was intent on upending the traditional news media, Mr. Ailes built a network, the Fox News Channel, that would speak to and for those Americans he said were being ignored and disrespected. They were the people who went to Friendly’s for milkshakes, flew the American flag on their car antennas and didn’t see much point in trying to “understand” America’s enemies.

His network would load its prime-time slots with opinionated talk-radio-style personalities while presenting news with an approach he called “fair and balanced,” an indictment of the rest of the news media as excessively liberal. He implicitly injected the news with politics — and set Fox to the right of its rivals — even as he professed to be doing the opposite.

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There will be backlash I bet.

[rufus dog]

1. Nah - A DU obit would state "Fry in Hell you piece of shit"

Well, at least that would be my contribution.

[More_Cowbell]

2. Your ideas are intriguing to me...

and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[mhw]

3. LOL..

Yup that's about it.

What's left to say?

[ProudLib72]

4. Just because the editor in chief doesn't allow

cursing doesn't mean the author wasn't thinking the same.

[dalton99a]

5. The "official" NYT obit is at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/business/media/roger-ailes-dead.html

Roger Ailes, Who Built Fox News Into an Empire, Dies at 77
Mr. Ailes exerted wide influence on American politics with his conservative Fox News, only to be undone by sexual harassment allegations.
By CLYDE HABERMAN MAY 18, 2017

Roger E. Ailes, who shaped the images that helped elect three Republican presidents and then became a dominant, often-intimidating force in American conservative politics at the helm of Fox News until he was forced out last year in a sexual harassment scandal, died on Thursday morning. He was 77.

The cause was complications of a subdural hematoma that Mr. Ailes sustained when he fell and struck his head on May 10 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., the local authorities said.

“Fair and balanced” was Mr. Ailes’s defining phrase for Fox News, along with another slogan: “We report. You decide.” Though routinely mocked by liberal critics, who regarded the network as decidedly unfair and imbalanced, those words amounted to an article of faith for Mr. Ailes, who created Fox News with Rupert Murdoch’s money and guided it for two decades.

“If we look conservative,” he said, “it’s because the other guys are so far to the left.” In his mordant humor, CNN stood for Clinton News Network and CBS for Communist Broadcasting System. What Fox News did, he said, was apply a necessary corrective.

[pokerfan]

6. I've never wished a man dead but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.

[Canoe52]

8. I see what you did there,

And I raise you two tweets!

[TexasProgresive]

10. So you say with your "poker face"

Very subtle, very good.

[PunkinPi]

11. Ha, well played.

[flygal]

12. Wow that's a very clever expression. Have you ever thought of running for President?

[ATL Ebony]

13. You're a genius, seriously, that's f'ing awesome.

[gopiscrap]

7. why didn't the obit

go into the reason he was let go at Fox?

[lillypaddle]

9. Well done!