Ailes Warns Personnel Changes May Shake Up Fox News

[chat_noir]

In a statement that likely caused shudders among some Fox News employees, Roger Ailes said Thursday that News Corp Chairman Rupert "Murdoch didn't invest a billion dollars in this company so people can have jobs. ... He did it to WIN. ... He wants to win and so do I." Ailes made the statement in a company State of the Business Address, in which he also remarked, "We cannot rest on our accomplishments, and I will continue to make changes." Separately Ailes told the Associated Press on Thursday that he intends to be "dogmatic" in pursuing rate increases from cable providers for the channel. FNC now reportedly receives about 27 cents per subscriber from the cablers and has asked for an increase to $1.00, The first contract to come up for renewal will be one with Cablevision Systems, covering primarily the New York City area, which expires on Oct. 7. All of the other contracts expire within the next two years. "Our viewers have let us know that they don't want us taken off," Ailes told the A.P.

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Ailes has a page at IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014614/


Ailes' messageboard only has 2 entries. We can do better than that, can't we, e.g, posting the video clip of Keith calling him a "fat ass".


hehehehe

[ck4829]

1. What exactly would be winning?

A global monopoly on all media?

[Warpy]

12. A higher share than he's got

because he's now lost over 40% of the viewers from Pox's peak.

Those cutesy little noises when the pics change aren't bringing folks in like they used to, and the propaganda seems to have turned a lot of people off as the reality of the situation has dawned on them.

We'll see if "change" includes a shift in the poltical winds.

[rurallib]

2. Think he'll hire Bill Clinton?

Probably got him his best ratings ever.
Alan Colmes probably gone for sure.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Are you kidding? he's the best punching bag they've got. n/t

[MikeNearMcChord]

10. In a Bizarro Way, I would fantasize Fox hiring

Mike Malloy. Hell if Glenn Beck can do CNN, why not. Boy I miss Mike.

[brettdale]

3. So then

It means they are going to get more right wing.

[Erika]

5. Did you hear Olbermann calling him "fat ass" tonight?

Ailes is as antiquated as Faux. The two will go down together.

[sarcasmo]

6. Winning doesn't mean ratings it means the election.

Kick and Nom
Maybe this is why Sheppard Smith decide to grow some balls.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. So glad I'm not giving them their $.27.

Who do they think they are, $1.00? I hope cable vision tells them to get fucked.

[Marr]

8. Please tell me they're going to move Billo to a humiliating spot.

[Jade Fox]

9. In other words, Fox is in trouble.....

Ailes is one of the true psychos of the Right.

I had a bizarre email exchange with Ailes a few years ago. I said something implying he was insulated from reality, and he emailed me back with a list of all the jobs he'd had in his life. It was almost sad. It seems he felt the need to prove himself to a stranger, and one who'd just told him he sucked.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Any advertiser who sponsors Faux

doesn't know shit about branding...
and gets everything they deserve.

Just saying.

[chat_noir]

13. What "Ailes" Fox News (love the pun!)

Roger Ailes is the head of Fox News. He is the fellow who created the psuedo-news network for Rupert Murdoch that captures the heart of every right-wing nut in America. It is very much like Murdoch's tabloid newspapers. Heavy on local, grisly murders, violence and sex, mixed in with an extreme right-wing editorial agenda.

Ailes recently criticized President Clinton for his now legendary explosion at a Fox News set up question by little, elfin-looking, Chris Wallace. The question implied that Clinton hadn't done enough to get Bin Laden.

Ailes, who has done more to destroy the credibility of objective reporting and journalism than anyone since Joe McCarthy, called Clinton's outburst an "assault on all journalists". Why an assualt on journalists is of concern to him is not obvious, since he hires failed models and actresses and right-wing ideologues to slant and convey the reactionary news that he sees fit to broadcast.

What "Ailes" Fox News

[Erika]

14. Ailes was laughed at for his inference that Faux personnel

were legitimate reporters. They are not.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

15. Chris Wallace? No es macho. Vaya con Dios!