Excerpt from the Nieman web page piece on Roger Ailes by Ken Doctor:
"Roger Ailes brilliantly and happily made a deal with the devil to divide the country – pounding talking point after talking point, understanding pre-digital memes – as only a great political operative could. That deal twinned Fox News Channel’s ability to prosecute Rupert Murdoch’s views and churn huge profits, now estimated at about $1.5 billion a year."
The whole article
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2016
(278)
-
▼
July
(18)
- Why Stephen Colbert can no longer use ‘Colbert Rep...
- Globe and Mail readership reaches 7.4 million: survey
- Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.83B, marking end of an era
- Kirstine Stewart leaving Twitter; no reason given
- Toronto Star puts hold on review into workplace cu...
- Good Nieman piece on Roger Ailes
- Tom Gould dead at 84
- Fox News’ Ailes resigns after sex harassment claim...
- Police shouldn't deceive the news media – even to ...
- Shaw Communications hikes rates, triples Q3 profits
- Corus reports deepened losses from Shaw purchase
- Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno charged with ...
- Bell Media not suffering without NHL
- Around half of newspaper readers rely only on prin...
- Sydney H. Schanberg is dead at 82; former Times co...
- Joe Fresh uses photo of Trudeau children in Facebo...
- Torstar CEO David Holland to step down later this ...
- Long-time photo journalist Peter Bregg appointed t...
-
▼
July
(18)
No comments:
Post a Comment