Thursday, June 30, 2011

Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint For Fox News Revealed


Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint For Fox News Revealed: "Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a 'fair and balanced' counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the 'prejudices of network news' and deliver 'pro-administration' stories to heartland television viewers."

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