NYT: AILES's paranoia taps into his audience's. MURDOCH's family is Lib, despises him

[UTUSN]

For the paranoia part, video surveillance outside his office, drawn blinds, gun warning at his houses---see p. 2. Thinks his network offices could be a target, is prepared to stay on the air with the minimum staff (42 engineers) under siege.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics

By DAVID CARR and TIM ARANGO

In the fall of 2008, Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, went to his boss, Rupert Murdoch, with two complaints: he had heard that Mr. Murdoch was considering endorsing Barack Obama for president in The New York Post, and he had read a book excerpt in Vanity Fair suggesting that Mr. Murdoch was sometimes embarrassed by the right-leaning Fox News.

Mr. Ailes threatened to quit, a person familiar with the conversation said. Instead, Mr. Murdoch soon rewarded him with a new, more lucrative contract — he made $23 million last year in salary, bonuses and other compensation, more than Mr. Murdoch — and The New York Post endorsed John McCain. ....

Mr. Ailes is certainly making money. At a time when the broadcast networks are struggling with diminishing audiences and profits in news, he has built Fox News into the profit engine of the News Corporation. Fox News is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC and CBS combined. The division is on track to achieve $700 million in operating profit this year, according to analyst estimates that Mr. Ailes does not dispute. ....

Mr. Ailes’s approach has put him at odds not just with the Democrats but also with the more liberal members of his boss’s family. ....

"I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,” said Matthew Freud, who is married to Ms. Murdoch and whom PR Week magazine says is the most influential public relations executive in London. ....

Joe McGinniss, who wrote about Mr. Ailes in his 1969 book, “The Selling of the President 1968,” keeps in touch with him. “Success never made that chip on his shoulder go away,” Mr. McGinniss said. “He holds onto what he envisions to be the values of the heartland and is suspicious of people on either coast.” ....

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[Kingofalldems]

1. Freepers and teabaggers have their own version of truth

[Bitwit1234]

2. OK....just who owns Fox News....why doesn't Murdoch FIRE

the fat butt Ailies. He has been a pain in the neck and such a hate spewer of the democrats before he even was given free reign at Fox News. This man needs to be spirited away to one of cheney's ratholes and he and cheney see who can tell the most outrageous and hate filled lies about democrats. that should take about 20 years.

[UTUSN]

3. Why M. doesn't fire him? He makes the cash that makes M. sing. n/t

[totodeinhere]

4. First of all, the thread's title is misleading. There are two liberal members of the Murdoch family,

but not all are. The old man is quite conservative, and that's all that counts. Why doesn't Murdoch fire Ailes? Because Fox News Channel is a cash cow.

From the article:

Mr. Ailes is certainly making money. At a time when the broadcast networks are struggling with diminishing audiences and profits in news, he has built Fox News into the profit engine of the News Corporation. Fox News is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC and CBS combined. The division is on track to achieve $700 million in operating profit this year, according to analyst estimates that Mr. Ailes does not dispute.

Why in the world would they fire him given those results? It's more likely that some of the heads of those other news networks that are losing so badly to Fox might get fired.

[UTUSN]

6. Let's up the "two" to at least three, with a couple more leaning or not known

From the other thread's related article: The brother-in-law, FREUD, is a family member, right? So that's ONE. His wife is TWO. James is THREE. Lachlan departed in a dispute with AILES, whether or not Lib, but anti-AILES, so FOUR. M's wifey Wendi is not known, but "friendly" with FREUD, so that's FIVE.

Yeah, my subject title was a bit simple, but your answer to the other poster used a quote from the o.p., no?


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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-09/the-fox-murdoch-feud/?cid=hp:mainpromo3

.... One thing is pretty clear: Freud’s opinions are much more than just his own. They undoubtedly reflect those of his wife Elisabeth Murdoch, 41, a former News Corp. executive who owns a television production company in London, and are very likely in sync with the views of James Murdoch, Elisabeth’s 37-year-old brother, who has been taking a larger role within News Corp. in recent years. Freud often maneuvers behind the scenes on behalf of his brother-in-law, who is chairman and chief executive of News Corp.’s Asian and European operations and widely seen as Rupert’s heir apparent. ....

It’s unclear if Freud’s attack reflects the views of the previous pretender to the throne, 39-year-old Lachlan Murdoch—who in 2005 left the company and moved back to Australia after their father sided with Ailes in a dispute over Fox Television. ... ....

Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, is also friendly with Rupert’s 41-year-old Chinese-born wife, Wendi Deng, a former News Corp. executive who has two young children with the billionaire mogul. But her views on Ailes are not publicly known. Freud didn't respond to a voicemail message left on his cellphone. ....

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[high density]

5. The channel has destroyed political discourse

Every time I visit my grandparents I have to wonder what new paranoid misconception or blatant lie they're going to be parroting about Obama that they heard on Fox News. This week it was, "Obama's giving all the poor people a free cellphone!" :crazy: My grandfather grew up poor himself and now finds every chance he can to bitch about poor people and welfare recipients.

[zbdent]

8. and yet ... your grandpa had electricity, right?

[hlthe2b]

7. The article describes his intimidation tactics in Putnam County

where he lives and bought the two local newspapers... Uggh, I had a very close friend living there, whose far left Democratic ideals had a major influence on me... THis must just be killing him to see this piece of shit bring his Faux news tactics out there in what I'd thought had long been a very Democratic enclave. I did not realize he lived out there.... Sorry NYers that you had to deal with this ilck.