Roger Ailes Signs New Four-Year Contract

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has signed a new four-year contract to remain the head of the network, the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz tweeted on Friday.

Ailes will run Fox Business Network, Fox television stations and 20th Century TV as well. Rumors that he was close to signing a new deal were first reported by New York's Gabriel Sherman in September.

The 72-year-old has reigned supreme at Fox News since the network's inception, making it one of the most profitable and influential wings of News Corp.'s media empire. In recent years, he has tangled with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, tried his best to influence Republican presidential politics and claimed to be making a "course correction" with the network. He also signed most of his top anchors, such as Bill O'Reilly, Shep Smith, Greta Van Susteren and Sean Hannity, to new contracts.

The terms of the deal aren't clear, though Sherman reported that Ailes was asking Rupert Murdoch for a raise from his current $21 million salary.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/roger-ailes-contract-fox-news_n_1988090.html

---

The GOP pays pretty well.

[hrmjustin]

1. They paid Juan Williams 2 million after he was fired from NPR. They got money.

What they don't have is brain cells.

[Berlum]

2. The brain cells thing is debatable

The lack of Republican morals or ethics, however, is not debatable at all.

[KeepItReal]

3. He has built a helluva propaganda catapulting machine

And destroys our democracy in the process

[elbloggoZY27]

4. The Grinch's are Back

What a crew.

Fox which is as a news less as you can get. It's truly the GOP enabler.

The really ugly side of what they call news.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Rog, I think you'll find that that other contract, the one you signed in blood, takes precedence n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. WHO WILL SAVE AMERICA NOW

IT IS A FULL FASCIST PRESS

[chuckstevens]

7. Four Years is a Long Time!

Four more years of Roger Alies. Well, there's always hope for a debilitating stroke, testicular cancer, or the flesh eating bacteria!

[itssimplestupid]

8. Lying And Spreading Propaganda That Would Make Goebbels Cringe Pays Well

Roger, I hope you spend eternity in an extra hot part of hell.

http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

[begin_within]

9. A lot more hate to spew...

[itsrobert]

10. This is a sign they think Obama will win re-election

The need the hate machine ramped up for ratings.

[Botany]

11. ailes is the same man who realized that holding fake "press conferences" for Nixon in '68 ....

.... could produce "news" as he is doing today. The man cares not one wit about the truth
but he cares deeply about pushing a right wing agenda on America.

@ 72 he has a 50 / 50 chance of making it to the end of his contract. Alies' work
helped to produce death threats against a friend of mine ...... he is not a good American
by anyway you look at it.

[Dustlawyer]

12. A lot less money than Rush, I guess the bigger the lies and nastier you are, the more blood money

you make! Propaganda pays well! It's only due to our corruption in D.C. that these freakin slime get the privledge of using our public airwaves! The Networks have swallowed up all of the small media fish, and in return, were swallowed up by giant multinational corporations like GE who has a large variety of business interests that all benefit from owning a Network. They need to be broken up like Ma Bell, and made to separate news from entertainment. They used to do this on their own in the days of Walter Cronkite. Also they need to be separate from the ad dept.

[Canuckistanian]

13. A deal with the devil

Dorian Gray would be proud.

[papa3times]

14. Has anyone seen Ailes lately?

If not I think we can be confident he will expire before his contract. If you are what you eat then Ailes must eat a lot of shit. It makes perfect sense, since he is a piece of shit!!! He must be proud for helping destroy democracy in America but he will not succeed in the end.

[Turbineguy]

15. Sounds like they figure Obama will win.

Another 4 years of effort will be required to destroy America.