The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
By David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters for America
Narrated By Bob Dunsworth
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The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from his early work as a television producer and media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. Consequently, when he was hired in 1996 as the president of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship conservative cable news network, Ailes had little journalism experience, but brought to the job the mindset of a political operative. As Brock and Rabin-Havt demonstrate through numerous examples, Ailes used his extraordinary power and influence to spread a partisan political agenda....