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It's been a 50-year effort: Fox "News" DNA Test
If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition."
https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2021/05/what-about-pedophile-dungeon-in.html#comment-5384383585
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