Roger Ailes
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Roger Ailes President of Fox News |
Roger Eugene Ailes (born
May 15,
1940 in
Warren, Ohio) is
Chairman of the Board, , and
President, of
FOX News.
Ailes is a
conservative Republican and a former
media consultant for
George H. W. Bush, having served him during the
1988 U.S. presidential election where he helped develop and market the infamous
Willie Horton ads that were widely decried as racist scare tactics.
During Bill Clinton's presidency, Ailes was a proponent of the rumor, popular in right-wing circles, that Bill and Hillary Clinton were responsible for the death of depty White House counsel
Vince Foster [
1][
2].
Government Consulting
Ailes met
Richard Nixon when Nixon appeared as a guest on the Mike Douglas Show.According to
Joe McGinnis' book,
The Selling of the President 1968, Ailes choreographed events for Nixon to appear in front of a carefully selected audience in order to accentuate Nixon's charisma. The campaign paid for television stations to broadcast the events, which were made to appear as news.
As media
consultant for the
George H. W. Bush campaign, Ailes was a significant player in the exploitation of the
Willie Horton story against Bush's opponent,
Michael Dukakis.
Chairman of Fox Television Stations
Ailes became Chairman of
Fox Television Stations on August 15th,
2005. In September, 2005, one of his first acts as CEO was canceling
A Current Affair, and replacing it with a new
Geraldo Rivera show titled
Geraldo at Large, which debuted on Halloween, 2005. He's also said to be working on a national evening newscast on
Fox, with
Shepard Smith as a likely anchor, though this information is only speculative. In October, 2005, he hired former CBS executive Dennis Swanson, who will be President of the FOX TV Stations group, which owns 35 stations in the United States.
Creation of My Network TV
Roger Ailes and Jack Abernethy announced the launch of
My Network TV on February 22, 2006. The creation of the new network is to provide an alternative for the current
UPN networks the FOX Television Group owns & operates, which are being combined into the new
The CW, in addition to other affiliates which do not want to join the CW Network when the merger occurs. Ailes will be the chief of that network as well.
*Received a
Bachelor of Arts degree from
Ohio University in 1962
*Received an
Honorary Doctorate degree from Ohio University
*Property Assistant,
The Mike Douglas Show,
1962-
1965*Producer,
The Mike Douglas Show,
1965-
1967*Executive Producer,
The Mike Douglas Show,
1967-
1968*Media adviser to
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Campaign in
1968*Consultant in
1984 to President
Ronald Reagan*Media Consultant for
Vice President George H. W. Bush's
1988 Presidential campaign
*President of
CNBC;
1991-
1996*President of
NBC's
America's Talking,
1993-
1996*
Chief Executive Officer,
Fox News Channel;
1996-present
*
Chairman,
Fox Television Stations;
2005-present
YOU Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are (
1989)
*
Disinfopedia: Roger Ailes*
Roger Ailes' campaign contributions*
Museum of Broadcast Communications*
The right captures the tube (Salon.com)
