Perfectly fitting ending to all this, he gropes, gets paid for it, and gets further rewarded for his misbehavior…only in america, folks lol
Let us not forget that Ailes and Lee Atwater virtually created the modern all-out sleaze campaign working against Michael Dukakis. He’s back in his natural habitat, I suspect.
Ailes was around back then? Figures.
Yes, he started his political career as Nixon’s TV guy, worked for Reagan, GHW Bush, et al.
I think he also worked, interestingly, for Ed Koch when he was running for Mayor. Given that he is 76, he goes back a long way. Ailes had been a political operative long before he got into the TV business, and yep, he was one of the architects of the modern mud flinging fear mongering style of politics (I say modern, because nothing we see is new).
Good for Gretchen Carlson! She could have probably had a payoff and gone on her way but she sued him and brought all this to the front. I don’t agree with most of her views, and don’t really like her interview style, but it took a lot of guts for her to stand her ground.
Most of the women on the Fox News programs are attorneys but it took Miss America to bring down the big jerk.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashnowa.htm
Pardon me while I roll my eyes…
Hmmm…What direction, I wonder, might that be?
She was also valedictorian of her high school class, graduated from Stanford with Honors and spent a year at Oxford.
I didn’t know any of that about Gretchen Carlson until this scandal came out. No slouch, that one.
Very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times:
Has anyone else seen Samantha Bee’s tweet on Ailes? I won’t post it because of the language but she does nail it.
@poetsheart:
Unknown, but usually when new management takes over they want to do things their own way and it could be the murdoch brothers have different ideas. For one thing, from what I know, though Fox News brings in a lot of revenue, it also is an expensive operation to run, so it could be that they clashed with Ailes over the cost of running Fox News (wanting, as most beancounters do, to keep the high revenue but cut costs to increase earnings…). I don’t know the political leanings of the Murdoch sons, they may or may not be as far right as their dad is, but I doubt it will moderate Fox News more towards the center, it makes its money by being the mouthpiece for the hard right, not the center.
@HarvestMoon1 - I saw that Samantha Bee tweet and laughed. It summed up the whole situation nicely…
ALL news disseminators have a point of view. I cannot find a single totally unbiased newspaper, TV station or website. Fox is no more biased than all the rest.
One example that really struck me this morning on the simple, silly issue of what Ivanka Trump wore for her speech.
One news site says “Ivanka wore a $138 dress while Hillary wore a $12,000 jacket to a speech about inequality”.
Another news site: “Ivanka used her speech to sell her own wares” (Her dress was her company’s).
Haven’t heard that rumor, although it would be a step towards symmetry in the campaigns. A couple more Ailes-types on Trump’s side and you might get close to balance.
I am skeptical of claims that Ailes would joint the Trump campaign. Just because they are occupy points in the same range of the political spectrum does not warrant such a conclusion. They have been fighting/warring/insulting each other since the commencement of the debates last season. Ailes’ attitude toward Trump seems to be not unlike that of Ted Cruz.
^^^That’s a good point.
Sadly, news media discussing women’s clothing choices is not new or unusual.
Love that tweet, @HarvestMoon1. I would love to be that witty.
There is a way to quantity the bias of a news source, and that is to poll those who use that news source primarily for their information about current events. Pew and others have found, time and again, that those that routinely rely on Fox News for their information believe things that aren’t true, that they do worse on current events and the facts around them then people who say they are the opposite of news junkies. The bias of a typical newspaper is going to be less than so called news websites like Newsmax and the like, Daily Koz is going to be a lot more slanted than a typical newspaper. The Wall Street Journal editorial page is off the charts to the right, but their business reporting for the most part tends to stick to the facts and is well reported (unlike another of Murdoch’s assets, the NY Post, which other than their headline writers, who are masters (not gonna top “headless body in topless bar”), is pretty much yellow journalism at its finest.