Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward has dropped a nice little headline for the world’s media nerds. “Fox News chief’s failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate.” Turns out that Roger...
View ArticleRoger Ailes claims he’s ‘out of politics.’ Ha!
Fox News chief Roger Ailes has been busted by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward for attempting to recruit Gen. David Petraeus to run for president back in the spring of 2011. In other words, playing...
View ArticleRoger Ailes biography sparks an Internet shopping spree
Gabriel Sherman should be flattered. People seem to believe that the New York Magazine writer’s pending, unauthorized biography of Roger Ailes will be a big deal. Look at all the attention that’s come...
View ArticleFox News’s Ailes: Latino audience a ‘tremendous business opportunity’
In the New Republic, Eliza Gray scores an interview with Fox News chief Roger Ailes on just how pivotal is the Latino community to el mundo de Fox: Ailes sees the Latino audience as a “tremendous...
View ArticleRoger Ailes’s biography boost
Vanity Fair has just published online an excerpt from Zev Chafets’s upcoming book, “Roger Ailes: Off Camera.” Its subject has to be pleased with the result, if only because of a single line. To...
View ArticleRoger Ailes biographer follows people on Twitter
A great deal has been written in this space and elsewhere about the Roger Ailes biography skirmishes. In short, there are two writers out there competing to recount the life and times of the Fox News...
View ArticleRoger Ailes keeps public focus on Roger Ailes
Sixteen years in at Fox News, Roger Ailes has shown he knows what he’s doing. Ratings supremacy, a cash machine, relevancy-proving fights with the White House — what more could a cable mogul ask for?...
View ArticleFox News’s Roger Ailes backtracks on error rate
Last April, Fox News chief Roger Ailes stood before an audience at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and declared, “[In] 15 years we have never taken a story down because it was wrong....
View ArticleRoger Ailes’s biographer whiffs when asked to criticize him
Zev Chafets’s new book “Roger Ailes: Off Camera” provides a quite glowing account of the Fox News boss. In chapter after chapter, Ailes is either brilliantly dealing with personnel matters at Fox News,...
View ArticleRoger Ailes’s biographer definitely not ‘authorized’!
In his new book on Fox News chief Roger Ailes, author Zev Chafets documents, again, that his subject is a loose cannon. Vice President Biden, Ailes says in the book, is “dumb as an ashtray”; President...
View ArticleFox News all day: Hard, and conservative
Daytime programming means everything to the defense of Fox News. Ever since the network’s founding in 1996, critics have bashed it as a biased and tendentious network, a house organ of the Republican...
View ArticleHannity interviews an author of ‘Killing Jesus’
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com It being Holy Week and all, Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News last night featured an interview with the author of “Killing Jesus.” The show’s host and the...
View ArticleFox News, please stop promoting MSNBC!
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com See that clip above? It’s a segment on Fox News’s popular roundtable program “The Five.” Like many segments on “The Five,” it features an active,...
View ArticleFox News’s Roger Ailes responds to Justice Dept. investigation
Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to his subordinates at the leading cable news network. He sent this memo to his staff today in connection with the federal investigation into an alleged leak...
View ArticleWhat’s up with Roger Ailes and the supply closet?
Easily the most entertaining bit of media news this week is the allegation that Fox News chief Roger Ailes one day worked from a supply closet in his office building. His alleged motive for the strange...
View ArticleGeraldo, Benghazi and the alleged mic cut-off, revisited
Last month, Fox News disputed a contention in Jonathan Alter’s new book, “The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies,” about a landmark moment in network history. It was Nov. 2, on the set of morning show...
View ArticleMSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Roger Ailes would do ‘backflips’ if Weiner were NYC...
Moments ago on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews conducted a discussion the political prospects of New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner. Guest Joan Walsh made the argument that Weiner’s...
View Article‘Books about Roger Ailes’: Site breaks down offerings
How do you pen a negative review of a book that hasn’t even been published yet? Just click on booksaboutrogerailes.com, and you’ll find out. Though the site appears to be dedicated purely to basic...
View ArticleFox News proves strength with Megyn Kelly move
What is prime time, anyway? That’s a discussion prompted by recent news out of Fox News. The Drudge Report on Thursday signaled that Fox News host Megyn Kelly — currently on maternity leave — will move...
View ArticleFox News uses ‘misleading’ boast about its trustworthiness
Fox News put out a press release today announcing its new fall prime-time lineup (Greta Van Susteren moves from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m., Megyn Kelly is in at 9 p.m., Sean Hannity moves from 9 p.m. to 10...
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