As he wrote in his 1988 book You Are The Message, “If your audience likes you, they’ll forgive just about everything else you do wrong. Politicians could fall victim to that, or they could use it to their advantage. He’s a funny-looking guy…That’s why these shows are important: to make them forget all that.”Īiles’s signature insight: Television, by its very nature, caricatured everyone desperate or misfortunate enough to appear on its airwaves. Nixon got a briefcase and he loved it… Now you put him on television, you’ve got a problem right away. They figure other kids got footballs for Christmas.
They look at him as the kind of kid who always carried a book bag, who was 42 years old the day he was born. (They had actually been rounded up from local Republican meetings.) About his client, Ailes told journalist Joe McGinniss for his book The Selling of the President 1968, “A lot of people think Nixon is dull.
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And so in ’68, the young media consultant Ailes put Nixon in a series of town-hall-style commercials where he took questions from an audience of supposed regular people. The popular accounting of the 1960 presidential race had credited Kennedy’s upset of Nixon in part to the incumbent vice president’s pallid unease on camera during the first of the debates. And if you think it is, you’ll lose again.” Before too long, Ailes joined the campaign. Though the precise language of their interchange has taken several forms now decades later, Nixon said something along the lines of, “It’s a shame a man has to use gimmicks like television to get elected.” According to Ailes’ account of the event, he retorted something like, “Television is not a gimmick. Nixon wound up chatting backstage with Ailes. As the legend goes, on one fateful 1968 day the show had booked then-Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon among other guests (though not, as some accounts have had it, a belly dancer and her snake). By age 27, the northeast Ohio native had become executive producer of The Mike Douglas Show, a gauzy ’60s daytime chatfest that had gained a following on the air in Cleveland before syndication nationwide.
The prominent anchor Megyn Kelly reportedly told investigators that Ailes sexually harassed her when she was new to the network nearly 10 years ago.Īiles’ first act sprung from the heartland. Ailes’ unwanted and inappropriate conduct, according to the New York Times. The claims prompted Fox to retain the law firm Paul, Weiss to conduct an investigation, during which some 10 women reportedly came forward with stories about Mr.
A number of other women subsequently came forward with similar allegations spanning decades. The move came 15 days after Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, filed a lawsuit against Ailes alleging sexual harassment. The media world reveres hackers and derides hacks, and although by the time of his Thursday dethroning as CEO of Fox News following allegations of sexual harassment Roger Ailes had come to seem something of the latter, he will shuffle off with riches and acclaim due to an unlikely run as the former.Ģ1st Century Fox announced on Thursday that Ailes would step down as CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, to be replaced on an interim basis by Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, Fox News’s parent company.
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