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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes sent a handwritten note to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offering "help off the record" in March 2005.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prom is a bad time to break up with your first true love but Newt Gingrich is doing it anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Roger Ailes probably didn't care that Sarah Palin wasn't running for president, he just wanted her to announce it on Fox News.
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?
Plus: Politico reporter resigns over plagiarism and Roger Ailes saved a man's life
The Fox News chief has been unusually chatty as of late
Her lawyers checked: Oct. 28 is the last day she can get on the New Hampshire ballot
Plus: Michael Bloomberg and Roger Ailes bury the sodium hatchet
The Fox News head takes issue with the AP's characterization of people praying in mosques
You can't win the Republican presidential nomination without talking to the Fox News chief
Gawker files first lawsuit to expose relationship between Christie and Ailes.
At one point, the Fox News mastermind was even picking out the president's ties
What the New Jersey governor and Fox News chairman talk about won't be released
Roger Ailes has told his Fox News to "move on" while Andrew Breitbart doubles down
She says it's just a coincidence her bus tour will be near his announcement
Is Fox News to blame for the lack of a 2012 forerunner?
New Gawker investigation details weird management style of Fox News exec
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