How the Head of Fox News Is Making Americans More Right-Wing, More Ignorant and Ever More Terrified - Digg

How the Head of Fox News Is Making Americans More Right-Wing, More Ignorant and Ever More Terrified - Digg: "Even his boss Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes. At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival 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. 'It was as though we were looking at Mao,' recalls Charlie Reina, a former Fox News producer."

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