Talk:Roger Ailes/Archives/2018

Roger Ailes directed Dan Rather's "interview" of George H. W. Bush in 1988
In the 1988 live "interview" on the CBS Evening News at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqwQw3THRvU

George H. W. Bush deflected Dan Rather's questions by mechanically reading from large, pre-written cue boards held up by Ailes. Supposedly, most viewers reacted by blaming Rather for having badgered Bush.

A follow-up story is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwxjG7y9eE Italus (talk) 02:11, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

News critics
I don't see anything here about the many notable journalists who criticized Ailes' effect on news. They accuse him of lying to advance his political agenda, which is about the worst thing a journalist can do. For example, here's Margaret Sullivan, the media reporter for the Washington Post and former Reader's Editor for the New York Times:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/casting-charlize-theron-as-megyn-kelly-is-brilliant-but-showing-roger-ailess-malignancy-is-crucial/2018/05/22/7a3879ea-5dba-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html Casting Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly is brilliant. But showing Roger Ailes’s malignancy is crucial. by Margaret Sullivan May 22, 2018

The flame-throwing writer Xeni Jardin offered a succinct anniversary tweet: “Remembering Roger Ailes, who died one year ago. We’re glad you’re dead.”

I take no pleasure in dancing on the man’s grave (well, maybe I do)...

The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher described the cable network’s methods diplomatically: “Fox gave intensive coverage to stories that later collapsed under closer inspection. David Brock, author of “The Fox Effect” on what Ailes wrought.

“At Fox, Ailes has ushered in the era of post-truth politics. The facts no longer matter, only what is politically expedient, sensationalistic, and designed to confirm the preexisting opinions of a large audience.”

Included in the Fox repertoire was not only the lie that Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, was born outside the United States, but also, Fisher recalled, “that Obama’s health reform initiative would impose death panels to determine which Americans might be refused medical care; or that human behavior played no role in global climate change.”

--Nbauman (talk) 16:24, 24 May 2018 (UTC)