New York Magazine in-depth article on Roger Ailes

[Riot]

Here is the link to this talked-about article. Roger Ailes, Fox News, and his desire to control the Presidential election. Very long, but great reading.

http://nymag.com/news/media/roger-ai...x-news-2011-5/

The Elephant in the Green Room
The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.

Excerpts:

On Monday afternoon, March 28, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes summoned Glenn Beck to a meeting in his office on the second floor of News Corp.’s midtown headquarters to discuss his future at the network. Ailes had spent the better part of the weekend at his Putnam County estate thinking about how to stage-manage Beck’s departure from Fox, which at that point was all but inevitable. But, as with everything concerning Glenn Beck, the situation was a mess, simultaneously a negotiation and a therapy session. Beck had already indicated he was willing to walk away—“I don’t want to do cable news anymore,” he had told Ailes. But moving him out the door without collateral damage was proving difficult.

Ailes had hired Beck in October 2008 to reenergize Fox’s audience after Obama’s election, and he’d succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest hopes, tapping deep wells of resentment and igniting them into a vast, national conflagration. The problem was that it had almost engulfed Fox itself. Beck was huge and uncontrollable, and some of Fox’s other big names seemed diminished by comparison—and were speaking up about it. Beck seemed to many to be Fox News’s id made visible, saying things—Obama is a racist, Nazi tactics are progressive tactics—dredged from the right-wing subconscious. These were things that weren’t supposed to be said, even at Fox, and they were consuming the brand. Ailes had built his career by artfully tending the emotional undercurrents of both politics and entertainment, using them to power ratings and political careers; now they were out of his control.

Ailes is the most successful executive in television by a wide margin, and he has been so for more than a decade. He is also, in a sense, the head of the Republican Party, having employed five prospective presidential candidates and done perhaps more than anyone to alter the balance of power in the national media in favor of the Republicans. “Because of his political work”—Ailes was a media strategist for Nixon, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush—“he understood there was an audience,” Ed Rollins, the veteran GOP consultant, told me. “He knew there were a couple million conservatives who were a potential audience, and he built Fox to reach them.”

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Riot

Here is the link to this talked-about article. Roger Ailes, Fox News, and his desire to control the Presidential election. Very long, but great reading.

http://nymag.com/news/media/roger-ai...x-news-2011-5/

The Elephant in the Green Room
The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.

Excerpts:

I miss Beck, hilarious whacko....Didn't watch his fox show but caught his act on the Daily Show...Stewart had some classic bits with his imitations of Beck...He will miss Beck the most...You ever see the movie below...a little insight to the inner sanctum of Fox strategy...how they all jump on the word of the day and promote it on all their programs...

Outfoxed: Murdoch's War on Journalism(2004) NR

Filmmaker Robert Greenwald delivers a no-holds-barred documentary on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News cable channel, which has been criticized in certain quarters as running a "race to the bottom" in television news. Featuring interviews with a range of media experts, the film offers an in-depth look at the dangers of burgeoning corporations that take control of the public's right to know and explores Murdoch's ever-expanding media empire.

Genre:
Social & Cultural Documentaries, Political Documentaries

[lord007]

Who cares. . .. .. ......

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by lord007

Who cares. . .. .. ......

For a bunch of whiners who complain incessantly about media bias, this is a pretty telling statement.

Because?

You guys believe Fox is unbiased reporting

Ed Rollins, the veteran GOP consultant, told me. “He knew there were a couple million conservatives who were a potential audience, and he built Fox to reach them.”

[hi_im_god]

it's a pretty scattershot article. i feel like there's a better story somewhere in there if given to a decent journalist.

but i did find the interactions between ailes and the murdoch family illuminating. i had no idea that sort of conflict existed at news corp.

i doubt lord007 has any idea what i'm talking about since he didn't read the article.

[lord007]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

it's a pretty scattershot article. i feel like there's a better story somewhere in there if given to a decent journalist.

but i did find the interactions between ailes and the murdoch family illuminating. i had no idea that sort of conflict existed at news corp.

i doubt lord007 has any idea what i'm talking about since he didn't read the article.

I read the left wing article...your not GOD

[lord007]

Originally Posted by GBBob

For a bunch of whiners who complain incessantly about media bias, this is a pretty telling statement.

Because?

You guys believe Fox is unbiased reporting

Ed Rollins, the veteran GOP consultant, told me. “He knew there were a couple million conservatives who were a potential audience, and he built Fox to reach them.”

For the records i do not watch fox news and could give 2 craps about Beck....And for the Media there is a strong bias on both sides obviously...when Barry visited Boston a couple weeks ago a certain paper was left out of the media pool for obvious reason's...do explain

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by lord007

For the records i do not watch fox news and could give 2 craps about Beck....And for the Media there is a strong bias on both sides obviously...when Barry visited Boston a couple weeks ago a certain paper was left out of the media pool for obvious reason's...do explain

But politics aside, why wouldn't you find an in-depth article on the history of Fox News interesting? I think the behind the scenes stuff is fascinating