Fox & Friends is a daily morning news/talk program that airs on Fox News Channel. It begins at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the latest Fox News Live headlines and news. MUSIC BLOG OF SALTYKA AND HIS FRIENDS Welcome to our site!!! You can find here some music we like from different styles:mainly new wave,80's synth-pop and. William Earl 'Duke' 'Garfield' Mitchell. William Earl “Duke” “Garfield” Mitchell, 55, passed away Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at his residence. Charles James Fox PC (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career. How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory. At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a Midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. FOX 2016 – 2017 Primetime Schedule Announced. Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group, today will unveil the FOX primetime slate for. Gray Fox, real name Frank Jaeger, was a mercenary and former agent of U.S. Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND. Originally a child soldier, Jaeger was the only operative in. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network’s founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as . The Foxistas went wild. They let the dogs out. Even those who disliked the way Ailes runs his network joined in the display of fealty, given the culture of intimidation at Fox News. The issue is available in the online archive now. The key to decoding Fox News isn’t Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity. It isn’t even News Corp. To understand what drives Fox News, and what its true purpose is, you must first understand Chairman Ailes. It’s a reflection of him.” Photo Gallery: Roger Ailes, GOP Mastermind. Ailes runs the most profitable – and therefore least accountable – head of the News Corp. Fox News reaped an estimated profit of $8. Murdoch’s global haul. The cable channel’s earnings rivaled those of News Corp.’s entire film division, which includes 2. Century Fox, and helped offset a slump at Murdoch’s beloved newspapers unit, which took a $3 billion write- down after acquiring The Wall Street Journal. With its bare- bones news. Nearly half comes from advertising, and the rest is dues from cable companies. Fox News now reaches 1. Ailes aims for his network to “throw off a billion in profits.”Slideshow: An hour- by- hour look at how Fox disguises GOP talking points as journalism. The outsize success of Fox News gives Ailes a free hand to shape the network in his own image. Murdoch is, himself, afraid of Roger. He has amassed enormous power within the company – and within the country – from the success of Fox News. Privately, Murdoch is as impressed by Ailes’ business savvy as he is dismissive of his extremist politics. As a political consultant, Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1. Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1. George H. W. Bush in 1. Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1. The network, at its core, is a giant soundstage created to mimic the look and feel of a news operation, cleverly camouflaging political propaganda as independent journalism. The result is one of the most powerful political machines in American history. One that plays a leading role in defining Republican talking points and advancing the agenda of the far right. Fox News tilted the electoral balance to George W. Bush in 2. 00. 0, prematurely declaring him president in a move that prompted every other network to follow suit. It helped create the Tea Party, transforming it from the butt of late- night jokes into a nationwide insurgency capable of electing U. S. Fox News turbocharged the Republican takeover of the House last fall, and even helped elect former Fox News host John Kasich as the union- busting governor of Ohio – with the help of $1. News Corp. And by incubating a host of potential GOP contenders on the Fox News payroll– including Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum – Ailes seems determined to add a fifth presidential notch to his belt in 2. Roger Ailes does not ever show up on camera. And yet everybody who does is a reflection of him. Friends describe him as loyal, generous and . One former deputy pegs him as a cross between Don Rickles and Don Corleone. Convinced that he has personally been targeted by Al Qaeda for assassination, he surrounds himself with an aggressive security detail and is licensed to carry a concealed handgun. Ailes was born in 1. Warren, Ohio, a manufacturing outpost near Youngstown. His father worked at the Packard plant producing wiring for GM cars, and Roger grew up resenting the abuse his father had to take from the . Ailes has called his father a . Robert Taft of Ohio led a GOP uprising to block the expansion of the New Deal in the late 1. Taft- Hartley Act, which beat back the power of labor unions. Roger spent much of his youth in convalescence. A sickly child – hemophilia forced him to sit out recess at school – he had to learn to walk again after getting hit by a car at age eight. His mother worked out of the house, so he was raised in equal measure by his grandmother and TV. A teenage booze hound – . During his stint at Ohio University, where he studied radio and television, his parents divorced and left the house where he had spent so much of his childhood recovering from illness and injury. So he became a drama geek, acting in a bevy of collegiate productions. The thespian streak never left Ailes: His first job out of college was as a gofer on The Mike Douglas Show, a nationally syndicated daytime variety show that featured aging stars like Jack Benny and Pearl Bailey in a world swooning for Elvis and the Beatles. In many ways, Ailes remains a creature of that earlier era. His 1. 95. 0s manners, martini- dry ripostes and unreconstructed sexism give the feeling, says one intimate, . He proved to be a TV wunderkind, charting a meteoric rise from gofer to executive producer by the age of 2. Ailes had an uncanny feel for stagecraft and how to make conversational performances pop on live television. But it was behind the scenes at Mike Douglas in 1. Ailes met the man who would set him on his path as the greatest political operative of his generation: Richard Milhous Nixon. The former vice president – whose stilted and sweaty debate performance against John F. Kennedy had helped doom his presidential bid in 1. Waiting with Nixon in his office before the show, Ailes needled his powerful guest. Nixon became convinced that he had met a boy genius who could market him to the American public. Ailes had fallen hard for his first candidate. He soon abandoned his high- powered job producing Westinghouse’s biggest hit and signed on as Nixon’s . He knew his candidate was a disaster on TV. Nixon would appear on camera in theaters packed with GOP partisans – . At the time, Nixon was consciously stoking the anger of white voters aggrieved by the advances of the civil rights movement, and Ailes proved eager to play the race card. To balance an obligatory . Wouldn’t that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?'. But asking a tough question – let alone knowing how to follow up – is a skill. Taking that task out of the hands of reporters and putting it into the hands of inexperienced amateurs was brilliant in itself.? And the press has no business on the set. He had brazenly insulted his boss in the Mc. Ginniss book while playing up his own talent as an image- maker, and Nixon, as always, took the snub personally. In perhaps the oddest chapter of his professional life, he formed a partnership with Kermit Bloomgarden – the famed producer of Death of a Salesman – and set out to conquer Broadway. Their first production: an environmental- themed musical called Mother Earth. When the show flopped, folding after just a dozen performances in 1. Ailes. The next year, though, he was back in the game, scoring an edgy off- Broadway hit with The Hot L Baltimore, which the New York Drama Critics’ Circle named Best American Play of 1. He was later nominated for an Emmy for a documentary on Federico Fellini, and produced a TV special from the Fantasy Suite at Caesars Palace for Liberace, whom Ailes knew fondly as . In 1. 97. 4, his notoriety from the Nixon campaign won him a job at Television News Incorporated, a new right- wing TV network that had launched under a deliberately misleading motto that Ailes would one day adopt as his own: . The project of archconservative brewing magnate Joseph Coors, the news service was designed to inject a far- right slant into local news broadcasts by providing news clips that stations could use without credit – and for a fraction of the true costs of production. Once the affiliates got hooked on the discounted clips, its president explained, TVN would . So the fledgling operation purged 1. Ailes to command the newsroom. The network planned to invest millions in satellite distribution that would enable TVN to not just distribute news clips but provide a full newscast with its own anchors – a business model that was also employed by an upstart network called CNN. For Ailes, it was a way to extend the kind of fake news that he was regularly using as a political strategist. Information Agency – a hand- in- glove relationship with the Ford administration that Ailes insisted created no conflict of interest. But TVN collapsed in 1. Ailes of the chance to implement his vision for a right- wing news network. Ailes would have to wait two decades to launch another “fair and balanced” propaganda machine – and when he did, he would make sure that the journalists he employed were prepared to toe the party line. Following the failure of TVN, Ailes re. Over the next decade, drawing on the tactics he honed working for Nixon, he helped elect two more conservative presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. In 1. 98. 4, after the 7. Reagan stumbled badly in his first debate with Walter Mondale, the campaign tapped Ailes to prep the president for the next showdown. At the time, Reagan was beginning to exhibit what his son Ron now describes as early signs of Alzheimer’s, and his age and acuity were becoming a central issue in the campaign. Ailes – a veteran of Reagan’s media team in 1. Morning in America” campaign – knew that framing one good shot in a debate could make the difference come Election Day. Feelgood” – told the Gipper to ditch the facts and figures. He armed Reagan with a one- liner to beat back any question about his mental agility – and the president’s delivery was pitch- perfect.
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