Posted on 09/26/2011 11:12:27 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Could Fox News be moving away from the right? As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering, Fox News chief Roger Ailes is making what he calls a “course correction.” Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin “became a bit of a branding issue for us,” he tells Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. Republican candidates still consult Ailes: when Rick Perry was still weighing a presidential bid, he stopped by Ailes's office and confided he was worried about being able to raise money, and Mitt Romney took Ailes out for a pasta dinner. But Ailes also engineered the Republican primary debate for maximum reality-television conflict, aiming tough questions geared toward the weaknesses of each candidate and prompting them to tear into each other.
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Yeah, it’s just such a branding problem having hosts that people want to watch, isn’t it?
I know—the ACTUAL Ailes quotes in the piece are hilarious.
We need a REAL Conservative News Channel... not a RINO big gubmint knobrubber network.
Ailes just runnin’ scared of obama, like everyone else.
AND AILES IS RUSH LIMBAUGHS FRIEND?
Or has he turned on Rush too.
Annoying keyword spamming is annoying.
It can’t be that bad if Sarah Palin lets her name be associated with it, and collects large paychecks working for it.
Would she really associate herself and take money from a RINO big gubmint knobrubber network? Doesn’t seem like that would be in-character for her.
Not hating this from Ailes..
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“(Ailes seems to relish the feuding among his stars, saying, “O’Reilly hates Sean and he hates Rush because they did better in radio than he did.”)
Ailes keeps a wary eye on anchor Shepard Smith, who occasionally backs aspects of the Obama record: “Every once in a while Shep Smith gets out there where the buses don’t run and we have a friendly talk.”
And Ailes likes to tease O’Reilly: “You gonna suck up to Obama so you can get another interview at the next football game?”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/roger-ailes-repositions-fox-news.html
Whatever the criticism, thank God there IS Roger Ailes and FNC. Just consider the morass of non-stop news twisting and outright political propagandizing 15-20 yrs. ago.
bump.
Wow, who knew FOX was right wing...?
pffffffffffffff
Freegards,
Lex
btw...’cept for Cavuto I dont care much for FOX at all.
OK.
See post # 49 above. Replace Van Sustern with Juan Williams.
Thanks, murron!
Fox “News” needs her a lot more than she needs them.
The whole purpose of the piece is to promote this leftist lie.
I would love to see Megyn Kelly beat the daylights out of that punk Maher. She is smarter than him, more articulate and I'm sure she could mop up the floor with him.
The only problem is that a punk like Maher would probably like it. It wouldn't surprise me if Maher pays women a lot uglier than Megyn to tie him up and spank him.
As I recall he jumped into radio when Rush lost his hearing.
I just heard an ad for GBTV this morning. It talked about getting the truth even if there’s a sacred cow standing in the way. Talked about there being “no filters” to keep out the truth. Methinks Glenn Beck has pondered Fox’s giving in to Obama’s lawyers when they told Ailes they would annihilate the parent company through FCC and anti-monopoly measures if anybody reported on Obama’s eligibility. Beck dutifully (and with great relish, as a good actor) ridiculed the “birthers” but that had to stick in his craw and it seems like maybe he’s seeing that the country is sunk if we have a media that is threatened into silence.
What other “sacred cow” would Beck be referring to? Is there reason to believe he was forbidden to talk about any other issue? He’s put out some hard-hitting stuff and the only issue I ever felt like he held back on was the eligibility issue. Yet the words he’s using in his ads says he know there was a “sacred cow”.
I doubt that Beck would admit it, but having his parent company threatened by Obama and then being told what he could and couldn’t discuss had to have stuck in his craw. I’ve been saying for a long time that none of the corruption will change until the lying media is called out for its lies and we have a REAL alternative, that can’t be bought or threatened into lying to us. I’m glad to see Beck realizing this as well. I do wish he’d come out with the truth about Obama’s eligibility, though, and the threats that Fox and other media companies were issued. I wish he’d come right out and say that he made fun of us because he was told he had to, or else his little ones might be killed.
Well it`s not a surprise to learn that Fox is moving away from the right, they did this some time ago. Even though it is NOT TRUE that the Tea Party is fading, Fox News has no Tea Party panelists on FNS or Special Report or Fox 5 as far as I am concerned.I have always said, Fox acts as though 2010 never happened. Why no Tea Party panelists, I always asked.
Shawn Hannity is it I would say that includes Tea Party folks on his panel.
Special Report has NONE, FNS has none
I do not believe anything Newsweek says, I know this first hand from watching Fox, I am not in need of Newsweak to tell me this, that Fox has moved to the left. They have had a leftist poll since the early 2000`s
Now If Ailes really said this to Kurtz (they give it quotes) and he really said WAS as in past tense he must have reason to believe that she is leaving Fox? I can not see Sarah trusting him with this info, he probably sees the tea leaves as we do...OF COURSE SHE IS RUNNING!
Fox is a joke with few exceptions! It was great for quite a few years, but has moved left without question, it pains me to say they are now a joke in many ways.
WELL SAID. I would only add....
Special Report panel is the same as FNS
What about the panelists on FNS and Special Report? The Tea Party is only spoken of in the third person. Charles Krauthammer, The Weekly Standard, National Review....
Charles K, Steve Hayes all said months ago that Romney was their candidate, I was watching.
Jonah Goldberg says the GOP needs to “give up on it`s pro life family values platform, so we can start winning elections again” I heard him say that, these are the people they want on their programs.
Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll (out of Manchester NH) has been trying to sabotage Republicans for years, they tried to throw the 2004 election to Kerry with their last poll taken over Halloween weekend.
The evidence is overwhelming that they have moved to the left and quite some time ago. It is very clear to me, and I do not need Newsweak to tell me this.
I do not need Newsweak to tell me that Fox has moved to the left, they have done this some time ago.
Ailes is not dummy. There is no way that he actually believes that the Tea Party PRINCIPLES are losing favor. Those principles are, IMHO, gaining in popularity as Obama does the fading. But Ailes probably does recognize the power of the MSM to demonize anything they can name. And they can name the Tea Party. So they have had some success with that. The chance the Dems have to translate that into votes is, also IMHO, next to nothing. Republicans will run on Tea Party principles and those are very popular and, in fact, gaining in popularity.
With the exception of Glenn Becks program, fox news had already drifted to the left. When a saudi-mite took such a massive stake in the company, it was inevitable.
Overall, they are no better than msnbc in my opinion.
At least the ‘net still has a few small bastions of reliable news remaining, for now.
Ailes isn’t a “lib,” he’s a global socialist.
I can’t explain why, but I think that Ailes and Limbaugh have drifted apart. It may have something to do with the branding issue.
“Weren’t they the people who bought Newsweek for $1?”
Screwed, eh?
That sure does sound like past tense and painting Sarah "gone" along with Beck.
If Ailes thinks he’s going to succeed as just another liberal news station, spewing the same gunk as CNN, ABC, See-BS, etc, he’s wrong.
With no conservatives watching Fox, who does Ailes thinks will watch? When Palin gets the nomination, Fox won’t have a horse in the race and will be irrelevant.
As the Tea Party’s popularity fades....
Lost me at that point.
Lefties have loved Shep since Katrina, he won their hearts with his Mascara stained tears streaming down his faux drama queen face.
Well Roger ol son, Faux News has become quite a problem for me as of late. I can very easily see bidding adios to you and yours.
Nah! Why spoil the fun of assuming that a liberal rag like the "Daily Beast" is fair and accurate. Let's just jump to the worst conclusion possible. Ailes is a RINO!!!!!
Beck wanted to leave Fox and Sarah hasn't. What else does anyone really need to know.
Both of these are wishful thinking.
Could Fox News be moving away from the right? As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering......the partisan media shills will continue to serve up a steady piss-stream of op-eds and other fake news showing that only a small groups of angry, dangerous racists are against a monopartisan political structure.
MOST of FOX is UNWATCHABLE!! I do watch The Five but mute it when Beckel talks and Dana PeRINO spouts her squishyness.
MOST of FOX is UNWATCHABLE!! I do watch The Five but mute it when Beckel talks and Dana PeRINO spouts her squishyness.
Megyn’s gone LEFT and RUDE!
One of my dreams has been for Rush to buy out CNN and change the name to the Conservative News Network. Sadly Rush hasn't listened to me. So far.
Excellent!
You have a rare gift of seeing the trees for the forest!
Think of the costs alone of having to fumigate the joint... and the exorcisms.
I hate screaming talking heads, so I don’t watch any of the news outlets, including FOX.
Yes let's take a look.
“course correction.”...“became a bit of a branding issue for us,”
Yes, who needs full context when one can invent their own.
Anyway, I am a big fan of Ailes. I think he's very good at what he does, and I'm always interested in what he has to say. I don't really care for his product, simply because I don't care for television. But I respect Ailes as a creative and successful businessman. I don't appreciate Howie Kurtz at all.
I used to believe some years ago that Fox was fair and balanced, so yes I would have expected that they would include more than just the view points of of the Republican Establishment and the Democrat party. Especially after 2010 elections etc.
Ailes is just part of the “squishy middle” - or the elitest GOP.
I’m sure he shrinks from people like Beck or Palin.
Funny though, he’s a big fan of Rush Limbaugh - at least according to Rush. But .. that doesn’t mean I believe Rush is unaware of Ailes’ “moderate” leanings.
I’m not sure it would be women he’d be paying.
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