Without Rupert Murdoch What Will Become Of Roger Ailes?

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Without Rupert Murdoch What Will Become Of Roger Ailes?
Posted by Mark on July 13, 2011 at 10:34 am.




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The next Murdoch in line could be Rupert’s daughter, Elisabeth. Prior to this year she was not affiliated with News Corp, but then daddy bought her production company, Shine, and she came along with. Back in the fold, she now has more influence over corporate affairs.

The problem for Ailes is that Elisabeth is not an admirer of Ailes or his politics. She held a fundraiser for Barack Obama when he was a candidate for president in 2008. Her husband, Matthew Freud, told a reporter that…



Of course now we know that the journalistic standards that News Corp are not particularly high.

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Ailes doesn’t help his own cause either. Just this year he has been involved in incidents that cast his reputation into doubt. Last April he was caught spying on employees of a small-town newspaper he owns in New York. And he used News Corp security to conduct the operations. In February Ailes was implicated in a scheme to deceive federal investigators who were vetting Bernie Kerik’s bid to become the director of Homeland Security. Judith Regan accused Ailes of instructing her to lie to the feds in order to protect Ailes’ pal Rudy Giuliani who was running for president at the time.

As the pillars of News Corp’s ivory tower weaken and crumble, Ailes is going to find himself increasingly beset by rivals and adversaries from within his own ranks. It’s hard to see how he can survive if the current Murdoch hierarchy is deposed. And considering his age and his wealth he may just find it more convenient to retire so that he can spend more time spying on his employees and propping up his dishonest political buddies.

http://gawker.com/5814150/
The Idea Behind Fox News Channel Originated in the Nixon White House

"A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News" (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the "censorship" of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype. From context provided by other memos, it's apparent that the plan was hatched during the summer of 1970. And though it's not clear who wrote it, the copy provided by the Nixon Library literally has Ailes' handwriting all over it—it appears he was routed the memo by Haldeman and wrote back his enthusiastic endorsement, refinements, and a request to run the project in the margins.


The 15-page plan begins with an acknowledgment that television had emerged as the most powerful news source in large part because "people

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There is one school of thought that believes Roger Ailes will simply cease to exist if Murdoch falls, sort of like the tower of Barad Dur in Lord of the Rings collapsed when the power of Sauron was broken. Another school of thought holds that Roger Ailes would immediately revert to a prior incarnation, and scholars are divided over whether that would be a dung beetle or a slime mold. There is general agreement that it would be disgusting.

ReTHUGS - I can't wait.

Senator Lautenberg said it is possible that Murdoch has already broken Federal laws if those bribery allegations are proven.
Please, please, please!!
This is the biggest media scandal in memory.

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Love the lotr analogy!

He wanted to spend more time with his family money.

Jacks?