Monday, April 04, 2005
Roger Ailes Entertains
Source: Broadcasting and Cable Here's another article about FNC's prez "entertaining" at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School in New York breakfast series last week. Ya know, Ailes would make a great late night comedian. Anyway here are some quotes from the article:
> Auletta proffered a study sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts that found a pervasive right-wing bias on the part of FNC. Ailes countered that Pew started out with a bias—a liberal one—of its own. “Most polls today are not done to provide information for the public,” he said. “They’re done to get press for the organization taking the poll. I took a poll on Pew, and 98% of my organization thought they were biased.”
> Ailes was in a similar take-no-prisoners mode. He launched quip-laden punch after punch at his competitors.
On CNN’s new president, Jon Klein: “He thinks there aren’t enough liberals and progressives in the newsroom,” Ailes said. “God, I hope he believes that.” It doesn’t matter that Ailes’ line was a misrepresentation of at least what I’ve heard Klein talk about. It was funny.
On MSNBC: “After a year and a half of the changes at MSNBC, they just got beat by Headline News in prime time. So I assume they have some problems.” Then he joked about MSNBC’s lame attempts to emulate FNC’s roster of female talent: “MSNBC has hired every blonde who doesn’t work for us.”
But Ailes wasn’t on hand to make a lot of news. He was there to chide, charm and entertain the crowd. Sound like any "news network" you know?
# posted by ATN @ 12:03 PM 
