Is Fox News a Tool of Satan?

Sorry if that was unclear.

Fucking hell:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/nyregion/25roger-ailes.html?hp
It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie to federal investigators two years before. The investigators had been vetting Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who had been nominated to become homeland security secretary and who had had an affair with Ms. Regan.
The goal of the News Corporation executive, according to Ms. Regan, was to keep the affair quiet and protect the then-nascent presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor and supporter. But Ms. Regan never revealed the identity of the executive, even as her allegation made headlines and she brought a wrongful termination suit against HarperCollins and News Corporation. But now, affidavits filed in a separate lawsuit reveal the identity of the previously unnamed executive: Roger E. Ailes, chairman of Fox News. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discusses her relationship with Mr. Kerik.

Fox News boss persuaded fellow executive to 'lie' to federal investigators
Roger Ailes wanted Judith Regan to keep quiet about affair with man shortlisted to head US homeland security department

The chairman of the right-wing current affairs channel, Fox News, Roger Ailes, has been named in court documents as the previously anonymous executive who allegedly tried to persuade a fellow boss at News Corporation to lie to federal investigators over a crucial Washington appointment.

The New York Times reported court documents had become available that for the first time name Ailes as the mysterious executive involved in the allegations. The claims were initially made in November 2007 by Judith Regan, one of Rupert Murdoch's rising stars in News Corporation until she was dismissed the previous year in a row over her decision to publish a book with OJ Simpson.

In her unfair dismissal claim against her former employers, Regan claimed that a News Corporation senior executive had tried to secure her silence during the process to vet Bernard Kerik as the US head of homeland security. Regan had been having an affair with Kerik, and she alleged in her lawsuit that the unnamed executive had wanted her to keep quiet about it during the vetting procedure in order to protect Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who had appointed Kerik as New York police commissioner and was Kerik's main supporter. Giuliani was at the time considering a run for the White House in 2008 and the revelations could have rubbed off adversely on him.

The identity of the executive has long been a topic of speculation in New York media circles. Now, according to the New York Times, the mystery is solved as Ailes is named in a separate court case in 2008.

The court documents reveal his identity and, even more sensationally, say that there is a tape recording of Ailes's conversation with Regan in which he seeks to secure her co-operation. However, there are no transcripts of the conversation.

Ailes, a hugely controversial figure in the News Corporation firmament who critics say has turned Fox News into a mouthpiece of the right-wing Tea Party movement, has been a friend of Giuliani's for more than 20 years. As mayor, Giuliani officiated at Ailes's wedding.

News Corporation hastily settled with Regan after she brought her 2007 lawsuit, to the tune of almost $11m. News Corporation said the case was closed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/24/fox-news-corporation-federal-investigators

And of course there's this, where the numbers have somehow mysteriously been flip-flopped:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lie-300x217.jpg

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I'm a little behind on this story, my wife and I were catching up on some DVR'ed Daily Show episodes and we watched the one about the J. Crew mailer that pictured one of their executives paiting her son's toenails. Obviously this set off the inevitable FOX News handwringing about how upsetting this was and how it was an attack on masculinity, etc etc etc. Anyway, what really struck home with me as a huge example of what's wrong with today's media was that FOX News based a big part of their story on the reaction written in a blog posting on THEIR OWN WEBSITE. So, let me get this straight, you can pay someone to write their batshit editorial on your website, then turn around and report the very same as "news"? I mean, I know this is probably SOP everyday at FOX, but I just had to smdh.

Uh, it's really well-documented SOP:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/distort-attack-repeat-20110524?link=mostpopular4

Okay thanks for being condescending. My point was that the practive is appalling.

LOL, how clever of you to notice ;-p.

Yeah as long as somebody writes it down somewhere, it creates the illusion that it is already being covered and talked about, so it can be more convincing as news. Neat trick, FOX.

Being able to cite claims from somewhere, anywhere, creates an illusion of structure and a context.

I get why its done, just shocked at how blatant it is. Its one thing to report that "this is being buzzed about you guys" and another completely to pay someone to create that very same buzz.

Sorry I knew you understand why, I was just venting a little because it bothers the hell out of me too. Do you think the anchors and pundits are completely acting (obviously they must believe in FOX's conjured non-issues, but if they are THIS in on it, then they are beyond being able to simply delude themselves and are really just putting on a complete show)?

Like off camera do think they, along with their writers, are like "This'll be good, I think people will buy it."

It basically makes them more talented as actors than everyone over at Onion.

Probably. I guess I'm just late to this particular party because I've been ignoring FOX as much as possible. I mean, there are symptoms of this in other big media corporations. With CNN's huge dependence on their i-reporters, or whatever they are calling them, I kind of feel like we are just a day or two away from straight up reporting on news story comments like, "and Palinluvr52 today had the following to say about, what she termed "President", Obama...".

In CNN's case, just way to much research of target demographics. Comes off really pathetic and desperate.

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For FOX though, I wonder sometimes if they are delusional about their methods a bit. Because their propaganda techniques are so relentless and blatantly self aware, they must really feel passionate about the objective they're trying to achieve through them. Tirelessly trying to scare or rally people in order to get everyone back to some sort of 1950s mindset has to be a lot of work, and they must know they are sacrificing legitimacy to get it. But they probably never step back even a little to say "If we have to manipulate as hard as we are right now, than is there anything wrong with _____ in the first place?"

Like isn't the amount of effort it takes to get people behind your position just make your position seem more far-fetched and worthless? So they believe in it that hard to drive them to such measures? Or they're just delusional. Trying to figure out a tidy way of making my point...

None of what I'm saying is really new of anything, more talking out my thoughts I guess.

this is kinda common practice in every field now and partially why i could give two shits what's "hyped" or a hot topic: it's all manufactured

Well, yeah, but tbh at this point I expect this from like companies trying to sell me goods and services, but I think its atrocious coming from any sort of "news organization".

the world moved on from that distinction a while back, sorry man

Fox is not a news organization any more than comedy central is

which is to say, somewhat

I had no idea tbh

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-anchor-shepard-smith-roger-ailes-didn-143816536.html

Regarding the OP query, here's a clue: Satan is known as The Father of Lies. I report. You decide.

lol I read all of those gawker features and still completely forgot about him probably being gay!

I actually read the first paragraph and said "he's gay?!"

poor rogers ailes doesn't even have his own thread :(

https://medium.com/@tobinsmith_95851/how-roger-ailes-fox-news-scammed-americas-la-z-boy-cowboys-for-21-years-1996ee4a6b3e

A retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News contributor quit Tuesday and denounced the network and President Donald Trump in an email to colleagues.

"Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," wrote Ralph Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst."

"Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed," he wrote.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/ralph-peters?utm_term=.cg869DV61#.pfWPR58PB

Did he happen to mention FOX News' close relationship with Satan (aka "The Father of Lies") in that email? Because credit where credit is due, y'know.

fuck off Ralph

Peters was briefly suspended in 2015 for calling President Obama a "total pussy" while on the Fox Business Network.

lol

He's mad because he thought he was playing fantasy football but now he's found himself suddenly having to field tackles and shit. This whole 'spewing conservative hate' thing was supposed to be just for funsies, guys!

this country would be awesome instead of horrible if only fox news was a tool of satan

America be damned.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/25/trump-beat-hillary-more-than-year-ago-but-left-cant-let-it-go-and-its-harming-our-country.html

there is next to zero talk of Hillary these days outside of the right wing psycho-bubbles. and it's an obsession.

2scoops brags about beating hillary every other day on twitter. rupert murdoch is a weirdo

I don't know a single person that is or was upset that Hilary lost. They're all upset that Trump won.

trump-beat-hillary-more-than-year-ago-but-he-cant-let-it-go-and-its-harming-our-country.html

Might as well put this here because she never was a good fit at NBC — Megyn Kelly fired after Tuesday defense of blackface and Wednesday "it used to be ok when I was a kid" apology.

former DNC chair Donna Brazile now a Fox News contributor! So from Satan's B team to the varsity.

More like C Team, rite? She's certainly a tool.