[lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: How Roger Ailes created Fox News starting in 1968

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue May 31 12:53:28 PDT 2011


On Tue, 31 May 2011 15:41:27 -0400 SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Fox is run explicitly as an agitprop
> organ for a highly articulated political formation.

But so is NPR; the formation in question is called "liberals"(*). NPR helps organize and lead the liberals in their historic task of moving farther Right, just as Fox helps organize and lead the Depends-and-Geritol set in the same project.

-------------- (*) I might question "explicitly" in both cases. In fact Fox mendaciously claims to be "fair and balanced", and so does NPR.

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