Roger Ailes
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Quotes
- Ailes says, "You've got just 60 days to prove yourself on a new job - and just seven seconds to make a good first impression. Seven seconds is all that people need to start making up their minds about you. If you don't demonstrate an energetic attitude on your first day, you're already screwing up." [[Citing sources citation needed]]
- "The best thing that can ever happen to you, if you are looking for success, is to have people underestimate your ability." -excerpted from Neil Cavuto's "More Than Money"
- "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." - Regarding his involvement in the perfection of the Willie Horton ads.
Controversy
Career
Politics
Ailes is a conservative Republican and a former media consultant for George H. W. Bush, having served him during the 1998 U.S. presidential election where he helped develop and market the infamous Willie Horton ads that were widely decried as racist scare tactics.
Government Consulting
Ailes met Richard Nixon when Nixon appeared as a guest on the Mike Douglas Show. According to Joe McGinnis' book, The Selling of the President 1968, Ailes choreographed events for Nixon to appear in front of a carefully selected audience in order to accentuate Nixon's charisma. The campaign paid for television stations to broadcast the events, which were made to appear as news.As media consultant for the George H. W. Bush campaign, Ailes was a significant player in the exploitation of the Willie Horton story against Bush's opponent, Michael Dukakis.
Chairman of Fox Television Stations
Ailes became Chairman of Fox Television Stations on August 15th, 2005. In September, 2005, one of his first acts as CEO was canceling A Current Affair, and replacing it with a new Geraldo Rivera show titled Geraldo at Large, which debuted on Halloween, 2005. He's also said to be working on a national evening newscast on Fox, with Shepard Smith as a likely anchor, though this information is only speculative. In October, 2005, he hired former CBS executive Dennis Swanson, who will be President of the FOX TV Stations group, which owns 35 stations in the United States.Creation of My Network TV
Roger Ailes and Jack Abernethy announced the launch of My Network TV on February 22, 2006. The creation of the new network is to provide an alternative for the current UPN networks the FOX Television Group owns & operates, which are being combined into the new The CW, in addition to other affiliates which do not want to join the CW Network when the merger occurs. Ailes will be the chief of that network as well.Education
- Received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University in 1962
- Received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Ohio University
Employment history
- Property Assistant, The Mike Douglas Show, 1962-1965
- Producer, The Mike Douglas Show, 1965-1967
- Executive Producer, The Mike Douglas Show, 1967-1968
- Media adviser to Richard M. Nixon Presidential Campaign in 1968
- Consultant in 1984 to President Ronald Reagan
- Media Consultant for Vice President George H. W. Bush's 1988 Presidential campaign
- President of CNBC; 1991-1996
- President of NBC's America's Talking, 1993-1996
- Chief Executive Officer, Fox News Channel; 1996-present
- Chairman, Fox Television Stations; 2005-present
Writing by Roger Ailes
- (1989)
External links
- [Disinfopedia: Roger Ailes]
- [Roger Ailes' campaign contributions]
- [Museum of Broadcast Communications]
- [The right captures the tube (Salon.com)]
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