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Originally Posted by bmcgowan13
Amen to that!
Roger Ailes was truly brilliant. He was an amazing TV pioneer and cashed in. I truly respect him for that. He was the media consultant for Richard Nixon/Ronald Regan. After the Nixon/Kennedy debates he was a visionary who realized that television was indeed the future. He saw a thirst for an outlet that told people what they wanted to hear and he created it. He was the Henry Ford of targeted programming.
With the advent of the internet *everyone* can now site-surf and find the outlet/web site that confirms their already existing opinion and they head to the trough to feed. Nobody needs to hear the opposite opinion--we can so easily migrate to the source (MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS) that confirms/validates our existing premise--it is always reassuring to know that we are always correct. 
All these other web/news sources are trying to mimic Ailes--and they are decades behind him and sloppily trying to catch up. He was the Lucy Arnez of opinion /commentary/news content....
Back in the 60's he saw the future. Well done Mr. Ailes--well done. |
Mainstream media certainly has a lot of catching up to do with Ailes. Fox "News" had agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787,000,000 to settle a defamation lawsuit concerning all the lies Fox promoted against them during the 2020 election. Fox promoted these lies in order not to lose viewers who only watch "news" outlets that reinforce their beliefs.