“Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.”
“I have a soft spot for Joe Biden,” he said. “I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.”
Roger Ailes got super pissed at Sarah Palin
This is great:
Sarah Palin’s announcement that she wouldn’t run for president disappointed her legions of admirers — but it infuriated Roger Ailes. The Fox News chief wasn’t angry about the decision itself. Rather, he was livid that Palin made the October 5 announcement on Mark Levin’s conservative talk-radio program, robbing Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza. Fox was relegated to getting a follow-up interview with Palin on Greta Van Susteren’s 10 p.m. show, after the news of Palin’s decision had been drowned out by Steve Jobs’s death. Ailes was so mad, he considered pulling her off the air entirely until her $1 million annual contract expires in 2013.
“I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.”
Roger Ailes, president of Fox News Channel
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was sued Monday over his administration’s refusal to release correspondence between the president of Fox News and the governor or his staff after a report that the head of the network tried to persuade the first-term GOP governor to run for president in 2012 last summer.
Fox News President Roger Ailes has denied urging Christie to run for president. But speculation continues over whether Christie would jump into the race, even though he has repeatedly said he will not.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey filed suit Monday on behalf of John Cook, a reporter for Gawker Entertainment LLC, who sought the information under state’s Open Public Records Law.
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Gawker uncovered an amazing document written by Fox News chief Roger Ailes in 1971 when he served as a consultant to President Richard Nixon. The plan was buried within Nixon’s presidential archives and explains how Republicans could circumvent the “prejudices of network news” and deliver “pro-administration” stories to television viewers.
(via Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News)
Must read of the day.
“Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), on Fox News president Roger Ailes saying that NPR is run by Nazis”:
“Mr. Speaker, I find those words to be very offensive and inappropiate. Relatives of mine were among the millions of Jews and others who died in the Holocaust… The Maddow Blog
Roger Ailes Apologizes To Anti-Defamation League, But Not NPR, For Nazi Comment
The plot, she thickens.
“Fox News chairman Roger Ailes: Obama “has not been very successful” and has a “different belief system than most Americans.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “I think if you watch most of the programming on that channel, I don’t think you would find many of those comments surprising.”
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…Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?
Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rulebook that served this country well as we covered the major stories of the past three generations, from the civil rights revolution to Watergate to the Wall Street scandals. This is not a liberal-versus-conservative issue. It is a matter of Fox turning reality on its head with, among other tactics, its endless repetition of its uber-lie: “The American people do not want health-care reform.”
Fox repeats this as gospel. But as a matter of historical context, usually in short supply on Fox News, this assertion ranks somewhere between debatable and untrue.
”“I mean everybody hates her who’s ever written a book because they didn’t sell many. She wrote a book and it sold two million in two weeks, so now they have a new reason to hate her.”
Krugman calls FOX News ‘deliberate misinformation’ to Roger Ailes’ face.
