How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory: The former Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history

i bet that study is completely un-biased and totally reliable.. lmao.. you pathetic liberals are scared to death of just ONE news network, when you have TWO cnn, and msnbc that churns out NOTHING but liberal garbage. at least fox offers an alternative to all the pathetic trash masking for news on those two ultra-liberal networks. liberals won't be satisfied until socialism has completely ruined this country and gloria sanchez is president, and she welcomes the 140 millions OTHER mexicans who haven't invaded america YET.

tim - You'll find that your fine conservative friends don't think socialism is so bad, if they're getting a Socialism Security check or Medicare from their liberal government.

I'd be willing to bet that Ailes has read books about the work of people like Josef Goebbels...

Tim
You sound a little paranoid . Are you Ailies Latino nephew?

Tim...it is very obvious: YOU just don't get it. You carry water for the GOP but you have NO IDEA how they are screwing you over. Keep getting your info from Ailes-he completely has NO agenda. ROTFLMAO.

I have faith that this next generation will have woken up to all that this Neoconservative Corporatist cult of politics, foreign policy, culture and threat to our American democracy. Otherwise, if our civilization survives long enough, they will study this as ancient history and compare it to the Fall of Rome.

From Nixon opening up trade in China, which led to the beginning of manufacturing leaving our American shores, to Reagan and the cult of the Right Wing Evangelical Movement, and the socio economic culture of Ann Raynd, which led to the tax breaks to wealthy individuals and corporations, which led to the imbalance of entitlements, to the extreme far right shift of the GOP of GW Bush, which determined us to be a militaristic preemptive force in the middle east, to the exact control of the message in the media, irregardless if it was based on facts, the man behind Fox, Roger Ailes is a man who fathered and engineered the demise of this great nation.

Hey tim.....$#%^ @$%! WE have done more for immigration than the last 3 failures you all elected.

We won't leave, we love this country and understand the threat of the Teahadists. Ya'll are sceered of your own shadow. LOL

Yes agreed and Americans everywhere better wake-up and truly see the crap FoxNews

puts into the airwaves. I am hoping most Americans do...

Amen

Joseph Goebbels is history's master propagandist and Rolling Stone has clearly identified Roger Ailes as being a skilled apprentice to the Nazi sorcerer's mass manipulation tactics. i.e. Fear and Hate mixed in with Lies and Repetition.

Amen to that!

And the similarities to the Nazi party and the modern American Neoconservative Extreme Right is alarming. Especially the hatred towards the intellectual. How long have we heard that the elitist this, and that from Fox? Who needs facts, who needs jouranlistic integrity.

Who needs facts, who needs jouranlistic integrity.

Who needs a spell checker?

Good job Rolling Stone! I feel this is a story that is worthy of study. This may alter the course of our history and country. If we could awaken all of the past intellects and souls who fought back this evil tide in Europe, they would tell us that we are right on, by identifying its resurgance in our own generation, in our own country. What makes it more dangerous today, is the technology to communicate to the masses. Twitter is the anti intellectual way to launch and run a presidential campaign and message its platform.

What is so frightening, is that the intellectuals were speaking out and raising the bells and whistles, and the German masses were falling for the very propaganda that would destroy them. Same as today with Fox News.

Wow you just summarize 80% of the Fox New Philosophy. Fear and Hate mixed in with Lies and Repetition. I would add Demonizing of other political views, for the perfect description.

I choose to believe articles like this de-market and unpromote Fox. I used to be a viewer myself. I now boycott their networks and advertisers and so do at least 100 of my friends and people in my volunteer group. I found this article to be very revelatory. It was like lifting up a big, slimy rock and watching a lot of ugly stuff slither out.

With Fox beating their competition at least 2 to 1 every day I don't think they have a problem with you and your friends boycotts and not watching. By the way I guess you have no problem with what's slithering out from under the MSNBC rock.

I used to watch Fox just to see how ignorant and logically flawed their spin on the news was. Eventually that game got old and I stopped completely. I haven't watched a Fox News program in several years.

"I haven't watched a Fox program in several years". But somehow that makes you an expert on Fox. I still watch MSNBC once in a while to watch them market Fox.

But somehow that makes you an expert on Fox.

Where did I make the claim that I was?

And an even bigger question: Why the **** would I even want to be one?

I still watch MSNBC once in a while to watch them market Fox.

So then by your same rationale, you're promoting MSNBC by adding to their ratings and giving them negative attention.

All cable news is complete bunk. I'm able to figure out what's going on just by reading headlines on google news. I don't need some talking head to tell me what my opinion or personal beliefs are supposed to be.

Mont

Msnbc doesn't pretend to be actual news,or fair and balanced. Fox does. Ironic that they ARE more factual than fox news, and at least more fair and balanced than fox is

@ Joe Mont

As to the, "With Fox beating their competition at least 2 to 1 every day I"; several things:

1. Popularity does not indicate rationality, fact is the counter intuitive proposition would be the more popular the less rational.
2. Faux runs 24/7 MSNBC does not; nothing on the weekends just those cute lil prison documentaries.
3. What this also indicates is folks that watch MSNBC dont get all their carbs from the same table; they do go to CNN, local and yes Faux. The Faux base on the other hand stay fixated to the same carbo diet swallowed down with a gulp of tea without ever coming up for air.

This article had little to do with Liberals or Conservatives. It was in essence about Faux setting up their own fiefdom of Fear and Lies. Founded by the same person that fed our most loathsome fear mongering forked tongue President, Dick Nixon.

I don't know if you are speaking generally or specifically, but no one has to be a minion. It seems from the article that a lot of people have chosen to leave Fox. I would consider it to be a hostile work environment. There are other ways of making money that don't require your soul as part of your contract.

Science is facts. That is what liberals and intellectuals use. We use the facts.

It has worked to advance civilization, but there are always those forces that have tried to stop it, with lies and propaganda, and unfortunately have used religious bias, which actually is a political motivation to keep the masses dumbed down, so a small minority can keep the power. Example; The Dark Ages, vs the Renaissance Movement.

BTW, I am a liberal Christian. I believe that God and Science can coexist. I think it is a great insult to our Creator when we don't use our minds to advance our culture and knowledge of the universe.

But back to your typical Right Wing blind sighted comment about the liberals use of fear by telling the world that their is global warming. Hmmm.

From a University Study:

WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 24 cubic miles of ice are disappearing annually from Alaskan glaciers, turning some imposing ice mountains into minor hills and adding to the steady rise in global sea level, a study in Friday's edition of the journal Science shows.

Researchers at the University of Alaska surveyed 67 major glaciers using an airborne laser system and found that the rate of melting in the last five years is rapidly growing.

"From the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, the glaciers lost about 52 cubic kilometers (13 cubic miles) a year," said Anthony A. Arendt, first author of the study appearing in the journal Science. "In the last five years, that rate has almost doubled. http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/cold-science/2002-07-18-alaska-glaciers.htm

But if you did an Internet search on global warming, which is now controlled by the media, and corporations, you would have to really look deep for any kind of scientific evidence. The Internet is controlled and biased, and will get worse.

That is my point. The facts presented to our culture today are being manipulated by the media who are owned by the corporations, and those with high geo political stakes in propaganda that will cause hate for a culture, in order to justify wars. Fox news knows how to herd the masses. Unless you are an intellectual, or a student of scientific tested research, historical based research, you will fall for the Fox news journalistic propaganda. That is what is going on with the new generation of Muslims. These are a better educated generation. They can trust their own thinking and judgement, and won't fall for propaganda religious, or otherwise. But Fox news may only has a few short years. Even the 65 yrs old are catching on.

I agree with you, science and God do fit very nicely since God exists and created the world as we know it.

About global warming however I don't believe everything the news media tells me nor do I want to fall in the fear of it as so many people have especially when hypocrites like Al Gore are filling their pockets with their fear tactics. I choose to do the same with any "scientific" fact. Not all science is real or truthful. Their are many scientific frauds out there.

You can believe what you like about it, but regardless liberals have been using fear of it for a very long time.

Please don't bore me with your talking point about liberals using facts, a political affiliation doesn't make anyone smarter or dumber. You should know since you a are an "intellectual" that science is not all facts.

You should know since you a are an "intellectual" that science is not all facts.

You know how you gave yourself away Fox paid news blogger? The testy, sarcastic jab to win your argument, "you are an intellectual," and "Science is not all facts?! "

Okay, if that won't win you over, maybe a blockbuster movie theme like, Mother Nature will always get the last laugh, and so Final Scene: there is the scientist, standing as the hero, watching the destructive force of nature, and Fading to Black, while we hear him/her saying that, "this is what we get, when we ignore the facts of science." The End

They wlll pay me?

You said you were an intellectual not me. You are admitting that you believe you are "higher" than everyone who does not fit your views. Maybe Liberal Christians believe that they do not need to humble themselves and instead believe in self worship.

You are really bothered by the word intellectual, and assume that I mean that someone is superior.

This is one of the online dictionary's definition:

an extremely rational person; a person who relies on intellect rather than on emotions or feelings.

Fox is based on nothing but emotions and feelings. No sound journalism. No sound facts.

And I gotta tell you, that my Beloved Jesus would even agree that I do not worship thyself.

Hey, I still don't get what your argument is other than trying to bully and beat me up verbally, which is another attribute of Fox News club members. What do you care if the scientists have studied global warming and have been alarming us. Go ahead, put your head in the sand.

Sorry gt, you lost me on Gore is a hypocrite. I am being sincere, if you love Jesus and call yourself a Christian, then turn off Fox.

That is an interesting point, Mark. There is generally a sameness to the women on Fox. They are interchangeable, blonde, and perky. It's almost like they are something off an assembly line.

Not all the Fox women are blonde. There is Michelle Balkin and a few black pretty heads. But the one thing they do have in common, is their attitude. They are all Jezebels. They are the "mean girls." They are the Dominatrix. They would gloat too, if you pointed this out to them.

What I never could understand about the fundamentalist Christian climate change denialist is that if they think Adam was originally created to caretake the garden of Eden, and if the rapture is coming soon (as it always is) ...

Why would God be ok with us trashing the place before he comes to pick us up???

I am a Christian too, and I believe in the book of Revelation. I don't know if these recent apocalyptic weather events are what Jesus was warning us about, or it is from global warming, or a natural cycle of the earth.

I even heard one infamous bible teacher say in one of his sermons teaching about the destruction of the earth from the book of Revelation, that "this earth will be remade, so folks, quit worrying about global warming." The congregation made up of, no doubt, many evangelical conservative voters who laughed heartily on that comment. Like it was some inside joke. What? And what if Jesus is not coming for another 1000 or more years? Does that give us permission to mistreat His creation, even with the scientific evidence? Rest assured, God will judge those who knowingly chose greed over protecting the earth God gave us for our very life.

On a side note, last Easter, this same preacher was teaching on the very latest prophecy that Islam is taking over the world, and the Antichrist will be Muslim. It is the same pitch that Joel Rosenberg who was on Fox selling to Glenn Beck. This saddened me, as I really respected this preacher, and wondered, if he was now selling out to Fox news propaganda. I sent him an email, and asked him why in this generation are we just hearing about this Islamic end of times theory, when our Church Fathers never mentioned it.

Linda, be careful of who you listen to these days. Stick to His Gospel. The apostates have already infiltrated our churches, media and politics.

Mark, Christians always want Jesus to return. It's just we don't know when that will happen, so we live like it go happen today, and work like it won't for another 100 years. We just don't sit around screaming, the sky is falling. Like the people in Joplin, we get up, and do what His Spirit tells us, even if the storm is blowing around.

it insults me for those on the right to claim some kind of superiority.....

The do like to play Holy Spirit don't they?

If Fox were an honest and truthful NEW agency I would have no beef. They play dirty. So crying and whining????? No, I cry foul, that does not meet the definition of NEWS. They call talk all day long just stop calling it NEWS. I resent the hell out of Ailes and co. scaring my elderly inlaws with lies.

Thanks for that link, adding to my favs. Totally agree too!!

Agreed! But if people realized they were being used as votes for this network do you think they would not be offended at the thought of being used for their own gain? Hey! Dont take anyones word for anything, do your own research! I mean, you can read just as anyone else can right? Please check it out, you will be speechless I promise you. I was an avid fox fan until I started investigating some things that seemed off to me. Or you can stick your head in the sand and pretend how great they are. You are the one to choose, but dont tell me I dont know what Im talking about cause I have done the research already. Start with Murdock, find out where he comes from, how the network got started and why, its a lot of work true, but well worth the effort.

The fact is people watch Fox because they agree with many of the views and there's nothing wrong with that.

Beware when anyone tells you exactly what you want to hear.

Be even more careful when it's a billion dollar corp that carefully analyzes what you want to hear.

And thank you my good friend. I will try to get a copy.

Bye Tim. Maybe while your gone maybe you'll learn the word 'objectivity'. Consider looking up 'discernment' and 'tact'. All of which would help you immensely.