2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFox News is a GOP Propaganda Unit admitted by an employe
As she was promoted through the ranks at Fox, Luhn worked harder and harder to please Ailes. She zealously promoted the networks right-wing agenda. I was very proud of the product. I was very proud of how we handled 9/11. Very proud of how we handled the run-up to the Iraq War, she said. My job was to sell the war. I needed to get people on the air that were attractive and articulate and could convey the importance of this campaign. It was a drumbeat.
Report: Ex-Fox News Staffer Says She Was Sexually Harassed And 'Psychologically Tortured' By Roger Ailes for More Than 20 Years
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/fmr-fox-booker-harassed-by-ailes-for-20-years.html
This paragraph from this article confirms FOX news is not about reporting the news accurately. FOX News is about promoting an idea or concept about news events. Propaganda.
GaYellowDawg
(4,452 posts)No matter who they are, no matter where they work, no matter who they work for. But I have such a hard time feeling sorry for anyone involved with Fox News who has undergone anything at the hands of Roger Ailes because they were most likely very important to Fox News. I know I should feel bad for them because it is the right thing, I think. But for me it's the emotional equivalent of eating something healthy that I really hate.
Free_Electron
(1 post)Excuse my ignorance - but what is GOP
chillfactor
(7,590 posts)in other words....republican party.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)7Inches
(47 posts)Check out this long list from 2007.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1709387
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)Fla Dem
(23,887 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)still_one
(92,528 posts)safeinOhio
(32,756 posts)just because she'll never get the picture of a naked Roger out of her head.
still_one
(92,528 posts)tavernier
(12,428 posts)He's the devil for sure, but I'm not certain if I think of her as a victim or an opportunist, and that might be the dilemma she is feeling herself. Once she was young, broke and scared, it may have seemed like the only way out, but she talks of being happy in another job not too long after which she chooses to leave to resume her "protege" work.
Either way, her head is definitely screwed up, and I hope she can help nail his balls to the wall. Real hammer and nails would be my preference, but alas, the good old days are over.
-Steph-
(409 posts)It's been so outright blatant since its inception that Fox News is nothing more than a mouth piece for the Republican party, that when I originally read this paragraph in the article.. it didn't even stand out to me. That's pretty sad now that I think about it.
mdbl
(4,976 posts)said from the get-go that he was starting Fux Nooz to be a propaganda arm for the right wing?
SheriffBob
(552 posts)is responsible for creating a war in Iraq.
thesquanderer
(12,001 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)If I remember correctly also at one time said he was going to make faux news to essentially a campaign arm of the gop.
underpants
(183,043 posts)One of the most telling quotes of the last 20 years. He got fired AEI for saying that.
Protalker
(418 posts)Working and being complicit to Fox hate for years is a choice people made. With age comes wisdom and wrinkles
jcgoldie
(11,662 posts)I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED! I thought they were fair and balanced.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,032 posts)said no one ever.
glennward
(989 posts)the "We report, you decide" part of FOX? Guess they really didn't mean that.