How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

[babsbunny]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=11

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

By Tim Dickinson
May 25, 2011 8:00 AM ET

In recent years, Ailes has increasingly become a headache for News Corp. In 2004, to protect his pal Rudy Giuliani, Ailes apparently interceded in the case of Bernie Kerik, the former New York police commissioner who had been nominated on Giuliani’s recommendation to head the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik proved to be a train wreck: In the most offensive of his indiscretions, he had commandeered an apartment overlooking Ground Zero – intended for rescue and recovery workers – as a love shack for trysts with his book editor, News Corp.’s own Judith Regan. Acting more like a political consultant than a news executive, Ailes appears to have resorted to Watergate-style obstruction of justice. According to court documents, the Fox News chairman “told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign.” The records reveal that Ailes “advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.” The allegation featured prominently in a wrongful-termination lawsuit brought by Regan, which reportedly cost News Corp. more than $10 million to settle.

[Botany]

1. Ailes is a clear a present danger to America

Having somebody like Bill O'Rielly call Dr. Tiller, Tiller the baby killer on air
repeatedly had a lethal outcome and Fox News' call of Florida 2000 for W
caused this nation and the world huge harm.

Looking forward to reading the article.

[gop_equals_taliban]

2. Propaganda

Is what he is good at creating, Joseph Goebbels only wished he had the propaganda power that Ailes has.

Hate, Lies and Fear it is all the GOP is and has been offering America for decades now.

[Botany]

3. A must read!

"In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network."


"..... Ailes confided that Fox News was dedicating itself to impeding the Obama administration. “I see this as the Alamo,"

:kick:

[w8liftinglady]

4. man. K&R ! what a pedo!

[mwb970]

5. Warning: the link leads to page 11.

Here's a link to the first page of the article.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=1

[babsbunny]

8. sorry and thanks!

[mwb970]

11. No problem!

I do the same thing from time to time.

:)

[ellenfl]

6. Kick

[UTUSN]

7. K&R #11, thanks!1 Some things stand out:

* It took ten years for Jane HALL to "begin to feel uncomfortable" with the bias?!1 How could anybody *that* perceptive be any kind of talking head anywhere else?!1

* Tweety sprung from AILES?!1: "He became the head of CNBC, America’s top business network. In his three years as boss, he more than quintupled profits and minted stars like Chris Matthews and Maria Bartiromo."

* The reference to Shrub's "NEGLIGENCE" ahead of 9-11 comes off as so matter of fact. If it is, why isn't he rotting in a cell?!1 Sigh.

[hlthe2b]

9. What a warped warped (and dangerous) man...

I wonder if he was bullied in school, because, like Limbaugh, Ailes has become the ultimate paranoid bully.

[Botany]

10. Kicked

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[proud patriot]

12. CREEPY

~Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network’s founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes.

“It was as though we were looking at Mao,” recalls Charlie Reina, a former Fox News producer. The Foxistas went wild. They let the dogs out. Woof! Woof! Woof! 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 China: People are always looking over their shoulders,” says a former executive with the network’s parent, News Corp. “There are people who turn people in.”~

[donheld]

13. More folk should read this.