Gosh, I wonder why we're seeing this ridiculously hagiographic article today in USA Today from hackish media writer and Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff:
The unbeatable Roger AilesAnd I wonder why, at the exact same moment, we're seeing this:
The Fox News chief continues to crush his cable news competitors.
... The 2013 numbers are out, and once more, for 12 years running, Ailes' Fox News trashes everybody else in the cable news space, with an audience larger than CNN's and MSNBC's combined.
It's a one-man business. Ailes is the beginning and end. Since he took the lead from CNN a few years after he launched the network in 1996, nobody has come close to competing with him. He gets larger, everybody gets lesser, creating perhaps the single most infuriating circumstance in modern media. Ailes, ever taunting the liberal media establishment, is ever further beyond its reach....
Fox Takes Out Full-Page NY Post Ad Using MSNBC and CNN Quotes to Declare 'News Wars' Victory
... Fox News took out a full-page ad in Monday’s New York Post, using quotes from MSNBC and CNN to boast about its continued dominance in the ratings.....
Um, could it possibly be because of this?
Random House is preparing for a "shitstorm," to borrow the phrase Matt Drudge used in a tweet four months ago, that will surely ensue with the publication of Gabriel Sherman's forthcoming Fox News book, The Loudest Voice in the Room, which is scheduled for a Jan. 21 release.More:
Advance press copies are presumably starting to circulate among reviewers and media reporters, and today, the book has a brand new website that "will be a source for pushback against misinformation throughout the book's release," a source close to the publisher tells Capital.
Sherman, who is a contributing editor at New York magazine, isn't talking just yet about The Loudest Voice in the Room, a deep dive on the Fox News Channel and its pugilistic ringleader, Roger Ailes....
Ailes has long seen Sherman's book as a threat to his legacy. Conservatives, including several affiliated with Fox News, have been trying to discredit the author for over a year now. In what sources described as an effort to counteract the book, Ailes denied Sherman all access while giving extensive interviews to another author, Zev Chafets, who published his largely favorable profile last March.What amuses me about this is the road-rage quality of it all. Ailes is basically the permanent Minister of Information for one of our two major parties, the one that hasn't let a Democratic president actually govern for several decades. He's amazingly powerful -- and yet he's going after this book, as he goes after every real or imagined enemy, as if his life depended on the enemy's total destruction. He essentially commission an entire pre-buttal biography of himself as a dominance challenge to Sherman. You'd think a guy who's as tough as Ailes thinks he is could take a punch, but I guess not.
The Sherman book's website, by the way, is here.
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I can not take seriously anyone who types "in the cable news space" when they could type "cable news."
A number of studies have shown that every sixteen to nineteen minutes some bimbo in the cable news space spreads her legs for her Pavlovianly conditioned not quite literate bare footed rubes sprawled across a "couch" salvaged out of the back of a nineteen and sixty-nine Chevy Suburban drunk on Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox Kool-Aid. Where I learned English (a reservation school) we call that a Whore.
Sometimes these things just write themselves.
No fear.
"The Wizard of Oddballs," and sociopathic freaks, doesn't want anyone looking behind the curtain, and expose him as being a neurotic and paranoid, hateful, fearful, little man.
And FUX Noise viewers are dying off, by the day.
Take a look at their ratingq for anyone under the age of "Near-death," and you'll find that they have no appeal to anyone but angry, fearful, hateful, and near-crazy old (mostly) men and women.
FUX Noise will die with Ailes and Murdoch.
And no one will be left to mourn them - but plenty of people gladly willing to dance, poop, and pee, on their graves.
Me, among them.
I work in cable and I can tell you that no advertisers consider this propaganda tool to be a news network. Yes, it draws millions of doddering, cranky old white men who can't get it up anymore, but that's not a demo most people care to hit.
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