.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fox News Network and Thought Control Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:11 PM The Fox News Network � Political Thought Control for Profit In June 1998, right-wing political reporter Matt Drudge traded in his day job at a Hollywood gift shop and took to the airwaves, gratis Roger Ailes, chairman of the Fox News Network. On June 25, David Bauder of the Associated Press commented: "Drudge was 'welcomed' into the TV fraternity this week by fellow talkshow host Keith Olbermann, who said on MSNBC's 'Big Show': 'He has gone from being an idiot with a modem to an idiot with a modem and a TV show on THE MOST IRRESPONSIBLE NETWORK IN AMERICA.'" Roger Ailes has been retained as an adviser to a score of fascist-leaning Republican politicians, including Nixon, Reagan, Bush, D'Amato � and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a ubiquitous presence in the channel's coverage and a regular guest on its discussion programs. Ailes was a key figure in Joe McGinniss's book on the 1968 Nixon campaign, The Selling of the President, which, the Columbia Journalism Review observed in March 1998, "depicted Ailes as a ranting, blustery partisan whose showbiz talents cut to the core of Nixon's image problems." Under Roger Ailes, a valueless political operative himself, Fox News has been molded into a 24-hour, ultra-conservative propaganda machine, though Fox, as Brill's Content notes, "would never admit such a thing." The transparent manipulations of the channel's pundits, the intrusive thought control, is inexhaustible and often amazing: "Tonight, the healing must begin," Sean Hannity, a commentator at the channel, announced � the day after the Columbine killings. To its credit. Fox does report straight news fairly although the channel's "coverage" usually amounts to taking dictation at press conferences and interviewing celebrities, and, Brill's observes (October 1999), the channel frequently frames the news "with oddball hosts, snide graphics and outrageous guests." The executives and programmers at Fox "positively bristle at the conservative characterization but with a roster of hosts that includes Brit Hume, Tony Snow, David Asman, Fred Barnes, Bill O'Reilly, and even Matt Drudge [cancelled], Fox News executives can't duck the fact that the network puts forth a conservative on-air face. Fox News is trying to have it both ways. Indeed, there are sound business reasons for Fox to camouflage the nature of its programming.... [Fox News] is the antimedia medium. From a pure marketing perspective, this kind of branding is gold, especially in a crowded field. They're trying to carve out their own niche, which is an intelligent thing to do, says Bruce Leichtman, director of media and entertainment strategy for The Yankee Group, a consulting firm. The disavowal of a conservative agenda makes it easier to attract such major, controversy-averse companies as General Motors and Sprint, which are now among the channel's largest advertisers. If Fox were to embrace overtly its conservative identity, it might marginalize itself, scare off advertisers, and perhaps lose any chance of winning what Ailes and Murdoch have so far invested more than $300 million to acquire: mainstream credibility and CNN-caliber influence." � Alex Constantin Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Explore Our Archive: <http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html> <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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