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NEWS ABOUT: Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes stories: 12 news summaries

 Fox Ratings 
 Soar After 
 Obama Tiff 

Conservative station still trounces cable news competitors

Oct 27, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Maybe Roger Ailes is on Barack Obama’s Christmas list. His administration sure seems to have given Fox News a gift anyway; in the two weeks since Anita Dunn publicly slammed the network, its ratings are up 9% overall, and 14% among the all-important 25-to-54 demographic. Shepard Smith’s show... More »

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Fox News • Roger Ailes • Obama administration • Shepard Smith • cable news • Anita Dunn

Fox News CEO Rules Out Presidential Bid in 2012

'I can't take the pay cut,' Roger Ailes jokes

Oct 23, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ailes won’t run for president in 2012, despite appeals from friends and associates. The Fox News CEO says he thinks he’ll serve the nation better in his current role: “This country needs fair and balanced news more now than ever before, so I’m going to... More »

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CEO • president • Fox News • Roger Ailes • Election 2012 • 2012

Joe Conason

'Nixonian' Applies to Fox, Not Obama

For starters, Tricky Dick henchman Roger Ailes runs the network

Oct 23, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pundits have been decrying the Obama administration’s “Nixonian” attack on Fox News—and that’s ridiculous, writes Joe Conason of Salon. The president’s within his rights to avoid or criticize an organization that won’t treat him fairly, and that definitely describes Fox. The network is run... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington Post • Richard Nixon • Fox News • Roger Ailes • John Mitchell • conservative media • Katharine Graham

On Fox, Beck Profits With Doomsday Scenarios

New pundit's ratings up in Obama admin

Mar 6, 09 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - On Fox News, Glenn Beck is pushing the apocalypse—and it’s working out nicely for him, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beck’s new show averaged 2.2 million viewers during February, double the number attracted by the time slot last year. Why does Beck think the Obama administration... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Fox News • Roger Ailes • Glenn Beck • pundits • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative media

OPINION

 God Bless You, 
 Fox News 

Vitriolic network so valuable, DNC ought to be paying for it

Nov 12, 08 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Thank you, Roger Ailes. Sure, your Fox News Channel still specializes in misinformation, distortion, and right-wing fairy tales, but “I’m no longer sure this is a bad thing,” writes Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post. The GOP needs to move in a new direction and... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • Republican Party • Roger Ailes • South

(Newser) - It won't surprise anyone that Rupert Murdoch managed to get his hands on an advance copy of Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of him, despite a strict embargo, or that he complained to the publisher over some of the contents. Murdoch gave Wolff more than 50 hours of interviews and access... More »

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media • Rupert Murdoch • Dow Jones • Roger Ailes • News Corp • Michael Wolff • Peter Chernin

'Rupert Murdoch Is Becoming
a Liberal'

Mogul held secret meeting with Obama to negotiate a truce: Wolff

Sep 2, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch isn't what you've been told, Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He's not a destroyer of journalism—he is perhaps the last great lover of newspapers. And he’s actually turning liberal. Yes, he’s still a free-marketeer, but Murdoch has been seduced by his second wife’s... More »

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Barack Obama • newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Fox • Roger Ailes • News Corp • liberal

 Hume to Leave Fox Anchor Role 

But he plans to stay on part-time as a senior political analyst

Jul 15, 08 9:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News' Brit Hume plans to step down from his role as anchor of the daily Special Report and as Washington managing editor at the end of the year, the Washington Post reports. Hume is near a deal to stay on Fox part-time as a senior political analyst, sources say,... More »

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retirement • Fox News • Roger Ailes • anchor • punditry • Brit Hume

O'Reilly Blasts
at GE Coming From Upstairs

Fox-NBC vendetta brings execs' bile into your living room

May 19, 08 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly’s campaign against General Electric—the Fox News host has called CEO Jeffrey Immelt a “despicable human being” for doing business with Iran—is part of a feud with NBC that extends far up corporate ladders, the Washington Post reports. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes apparently... More »

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NBC • Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Roger Ailes • Jeffrey Immelt

OPINION

Fox's Fortunes Fall With GOP's

Ratings are aching, talking heads are losing access and CNN has more than caught up

Jan 31, 08 6:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News soared eight years ago by hitching its star to Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular; now that the president’s in decline and its one-sided approach is no mystery, the channel has hit the skids. Democrats' refusal to debate on Fox damaged its reputation—and... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • CNN • Roger Ailes

Fox Business Network
Debuts

Aims to make biz news less 'Wall Street,'
more 'Main Street'

Oct 15, 07 3:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox Business Network officially debuts this morning, launching a challenge to CNBC, the only other all-business network on the air. FBN officials say they're looking to make business news less "Wall Street" and more "Main Street," so they won't be aiming to take hard-core financial types directly... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • CNBC • Fox Business Network • Fox News • Neil Cavuto • Roger Ailes

Does Rudy Get Boost From Fox Buddy?

Giuliani, close to Fox News honcho Roger Ailes, gets more air time than others

Aug 2, 07 7:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani and Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, have been close friends for almost 20 years. That friendship may be paying off for Giuliani in his presidential run, as the former mayor enjoys more Fox time than any of his competitors, the New York Times notes. Giuliani has... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Fox News • CNN • Fox • publicity • Roger Ailes • Election 2008

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