Topic: Roger Ailes

Glenn Beck Glad He Escaped Fox News Before He Got 'Too Enamored'

Associated Press

It's generally understood that in the Fox News and Glenn Beck breakup, Fox was the dumper and Beck the dumpee. But, in most breakups where the couple shares a social circle, neither party wants a reputation as the dumpee. Beck says he's the one who wanted to leave — because the network was so depressing so amazing.

By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 11, 2013

'The Bible' Would Have Fit Right in at Fox News

Rupert Murdoch wanted Fox News to air The Bible, the hit miniseries on History with an Obama-esque Satan. But Murdoch and Survivor bigwig Mark Burnett couldn't come to an agreement on the money or the rights. This is an unsettling revelation.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 20, 2013

Roger Ailes on His Counter-Biography: Mission Accomplished

When Fox News chief Roger Ailes found out a reporter was writing mean biography about him, he commissioned a glowing one to counter it, Roger Ailes: Off Camera. It's only been out for a day, but both Ailes chief and favored biographer Zev Chafets are quite pleased with the result.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 18, 2013

Roger Ailes Admits He'd Be a Bad Politician

Roger Ailes, president of Fox News and maker of sinister expressions, shows his true colors in a new biography, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, by Zev Chafets. We've seen them before. 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 6, 2013

Roger Ailes Insults Everyone in First Big Move of Fox Biography Chess Match

There are plenty of zingers in a new excerpt from the first of competing books on the Fox news boss. That appears to be the point — when Ailes is in charge, the Ailes book is about everyone else's fatal human flaws.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 16, 2013

Your Dennis Kucinich Fox News Preview

Yes, we know what you're thinking: Kucinich is a notoriously outspoken Democrat, so what on Earth is he going to do on Fox News that Roger Ailes has hired him as a contributor? Well, the Internet may be stumped, but the Internet has also spoken.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 4, 2012

Can Fox Still Hand-Pick a President?

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward today offers a fascinating look into how Roger Ailes doesn't just reflect so much as try to shape the Republican Party. But the question remains: Does Fox's behind-the-scenes political power actually work?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 3, 2012

Roger Ailes Tried to Get David Petraeus to Run for President, as a 'Joke'

What a world it would have been had Roger Ailes gotten his way last year, when he recruited one of his Fox News lieutenants to talk David Petraeus into running against Obama in 2012.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 1, 2012

Fox News Boss Roger Ailes Offered the Bush Administration 'Help Off the Record'

Fox News chief Roger Ailes sent a handwritten note to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offering "help off the record" in March 2005.

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By Eric Randall

Jul 5, 2012

Update: HBO Might Not Make a Roger Ailes Movie Produced by 'Morning Joe' Hosts

The incestuous cable television news for the day is that HBO is developing a project about Fox News chief Roger Ailes based on an as-of-yet unwritten book by New York's Gabriel Sherman, and it's to be produced by none other than MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.

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By Adam Martin

Jun 1, 2012

Roger Ailes Won't Let His Critics Subscribe to His Newspaper

Let it never be said that Roger Ailes isn't petty. It turns out that if you write too critically about the tiny newspaper the Fox News president owns in Putnam County, or even about Ailes and Fox, the paper will cancel your subscription.

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By Adam Martin

May 22, 2012

Roger Ailes Privately Regrets Calling Times Reporters 'Scum'

Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes sometimes says regrettable things about other journalists, but not all rise to the level of public apology, and his latest exists in its own strange non-apology netherworld.

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 3, 2012

New York's Hottest Club is Roger Ailes' Fox News Office

Roger Ailes doesn't have any trouble getting face time with the nation's top conservative lawmakers because, conveniently, they're showing up in droves at his second floor office in the Fox News headquarters.

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By John Hudson

Apr 25, 2012

Newt Will Get Friendly with CNN and MSNBC at Correspondents' Dinner

Prom is a bad time to break up with your first true love but Newt Gingrich is doing it anyway.

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By John Hudson

Apr 13, 2012

Yes Roger, Fox News Has Retracted False Stories

Last night, Fox News president Roger Ailes told an audience at the University of North Carolina's Journalism School that in "15 years we have never taken a story down because it was wrong," according to an account by New York's Gabriel Sherman. That's quite the fib. 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 13, 2012

Newt Lives Every Day Like It's His Last Day on Planet GOP

Newt Gingrich has admitted that he probably won't become president, and Roger Ailes says there's no future for him at Fox News, but the candidate still insists on being treated like a king.

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Rachel Maddow Doesn't Want to Run for Office

More than two hours before MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was due to arrive, the line at the Union Square Barnes & Noble last night was already stretching as far back as the audiobooks section in the far corner of the massive building's massive top floor.

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By Ray Gustini

Dec 13, 2011

John Updike's Boyhood Home Is a Real Fixer-Upper

Today in books: How Byliner saves authors from "the dead zone, John Updike's house is for sale on eBay, and David Maraniss is now poking around Barack Obama's college days.

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By Eric Randall

Dec 12, 2011

A Book Deal for Roger Ailes Leads to Speculation He's on His Way Out at Fox News

News that Roger Ailes is shopping an autobiography around to publishers is leading to speculation that he may step down from his post as head of Fox News after the 2012 election.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 22, 2011

How Sarah Palin Peeved Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes probably didn't care that Sarah Palin wasn't running for president, he just wanted her to announce it on Fox News.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Oct 20, 2011

How Fox News Is Really Destroying the Republican Party

Would more House Republicans rather have John Boehner's job or Sean Hannity's? How many Republican presidential candidates would rather be in a Fox News studio than the White House?

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By Ray Gustini

Oct 14, 2011

The Smart Set

Zuckerberg and Parker's Nightclub Fight; Swank's Apology Tour

Plus: Politico reporter resigns over plagiarism and Roger Ailes saved a man's life

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 5, 2011

Inside the Mind of Roger Ailes

The Fox News chief has been unusually chatty as of late

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By Elspeth Reeve

Oct 5, 2011

Sarah Palin Has Just 25 Days Left to Be a 'Potential Candidate'

Her lawyers checked: Oct. 28 is the last day she can get on the New Hampshire ballot

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By Ray Gustini

Sep 30, 2011

The Smart Set

Radiohead Reunites Scarlett and Reynolds; FLOTUS Shops Target

Plus: Michael Bloomberg and Roger Ailes bury the sodium hatchet

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By Dino Grandoni

Sep 26, 2011

Roger Ailes Muslim 'Worshipper' Fixation

The Fox News head takes issue with the AP's characterization of people praying in mosques

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By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 26, 2011

Roger Ailes's Advice for Each GOP Candidate

You can't win the Republican presidential nomination without talking to the Fox News chief

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By Connor Simpson

Jul 24, 2011

Gawker Is Taking the New Jersey Governor and Fox News to Court

Gawker files first lawsuit to expose relationship between Christie and Ailes.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 30, 2011

Report: Roger Ailes Started Planning Fox News While Working for Nixon

At one point, the Fox News mastermind was even picking out the president's ties

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By Ray Gustini

Jun 17, 2011

Chris Christie Pretty Much Admits He Takes Advice from Roger Ailes

What the New Jersey governor and Fox News chairman talk about won't be released

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By John Hudson

Jun 6, 2011

Can Conservative Media Stomach Another Week of Weinergate?

Roger Ailes has told his Fox News to "move on" while Andrew Breitbart doubles down

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jun 2, 2011

Palin's Crowds In on Romney's Spotlight

She says it's just a coincidence her bus tour will be near his announcement

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By Ujala Sehgal

May 22, 2011

How Roger Ailes Won in Business, But Lost in Politics

Is Fox News to blame for the lack of a 2012 forerunner?

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 18, 2011

Roger Ailes Now Apparently Bugging His Personal Newspaper Staff

New Gawker investigation details weird management style of Fox News exec

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