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Saturday, May 28, 2011

How Rodger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone begin his article with the following: 

"At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a Midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. 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."

You can read the rest here.

This article privides a little history on how our news culture has been dumbed downed.  It is a very interesting read.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

damn good article. really shows how fox is not news. it's propaganda masquerading as news.