Posted on 01/09/2010 1:54:41 PM PST by abb
In the fall of 2008, Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, went to his boss, Rupert Murdoch, with two complaints: he had heard that Mr. Murdoch was considering endorsing Barack Obama for president in The New York Post, and he had read a book excerpt in Vanity Fair suggesting that Mr. Murdoch was sometimes embarrassed by the right-leaning Fox News.
Mr. Ailes threatened to quit, a person familiar with the conversation said. Instead, Mr. Murdoch soon rewarded him with a new, more lucrative contract — he made $23 million last year in salary, bonuses and other compensation, more than Mr. Murdoch — and The New York Post endorsed John McCain.
In an interview in late December in his office at News Corporation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Ailes conceded that he had opposed an Obama endorsement. (“I didn’t think he had the experience,” he said, adding, “I don’t tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.”) He was outraged by the Vanity Fair article but said he “demanded nothing” and did not threaten to quit. He said he did not have to.
“If you’re making money and you’ve hit your targets for five years, you don’t need to demand a new contract,” he said.
Mr. Ailes is certainly making money. At a time when the broadcast networks are struggling with diminishing audiences and profits in news, he has built Fox News into the profit engine of the News Corporation. Fox News is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC and CBS combined. The division is on track to achieve $700 million in operating profit this year, according to analyst estimates that Mr. Ailes does not dispute.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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Someone should let these “brilliant” Times reporters know that FOX is MAKING money. So it’s actually OK to pay huge amounts of money one of the primary reasons for that! But then, what would Times people know about making money!!
http://www.startribune.com/business/81051557.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Duluth paper lays off execs
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/michigan/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1597359/Business/Layoffs.To.Hit.West.Michigan.Newspapers
Layoffs To Hit West Michigan Newspapers
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100125/nichols_mcchesney
How to Save Journalism
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/748513—canwest-s-newspaper-empire-for-sale
CanWest’s newspaper empire for sale
The first two paragraphs do NOT pass the smell test.
Roger Ailes, like a skilled journeyman, knows how to use his tools.
He got a new tool and is hard at work making new audiences.
The tool is Glen Beck
Roger Ailes made $23 million last year in salary, bonuses and other compensation.
How does Roger’s earning compare to the CEO’s at ABC, NBC,CBS, CNN, NYT etc?
I suspect the above list of leftist media outlets earned a whole lot less than Ailes.
There’s an unrealized synergy available too: A simulcast of Fox News’ main evening (cable) newscast, each weekday on the Fox-TV network’s broadcast affiliates.
Ailes was right. Obama is an incompetent buffoon and a Marxist. The only reason he's a Marxist is because he grew up in that environment and NEVER EVER had the brains and energy to study, research any other economical and political philosophy.
Obama is an over rated nonintellectual Ivy Leaguer. It is unfortunate, that we the People voted for him and his party.
This country and the world will rue the day that we elected this Buffoon to the Presidency.
Don’t you know it absolutely tore Pinch’s guts up to have to write this story...
http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=141374
But If Programming Like NBC’s 10 p.m. “Leno” Isn’t the Answer, What Is?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646361009488756.html
Court Skeptical of FCC’s Net-Neutrality Push
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646861252058916.html
New York Times Director to Step Aside
Ailes is worth every penny he is paid, and then some!
I thought Pinch left the NYT ..??
Ailes PING
>CanWest said its newspapers – including the National Post, its only daily not now under protection from creditors – are looking for new owners in hopes of wiping out some of the company’s debt while keeping the newspapers in business.
Interesting point. Formerly an ex-canuck; the National Post is an anomaly in Canada; it tips to the right, unlike the America-bashing other national daily: the Globe and Mail.
The GAM tries it’s hardest to sound and look like the NYT while the National Post is better looking visually. Good thing it’s being protected because the rest of their dailies suck.
I never thought about this, but of course
he would be a target. God bless and protect
Roger Ailes and his family. What he has
brought to this nation in FNC is beyond
priceles = TRUTH!
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“We had 3,000 dead people a couple miles from here. I knew that any communications company could be a target.”
His movements now are shadowed by a phalanx of corporate-provided security. He travels to and from work in a miniature convoy of two sport utility vehicles.
A camera on his desk displays the comings and goings outside his office, where he usually keeps the blinds drawn.
“Mr. Ailes said he received frequent threats over the years, but his concerns for the safety of his family were heightened by an incident at his New Jersey home after the 9/11 attacks. There was an intruder on his property, but no arrest was made.
In Putnam County, he has bought several properties surrounding his home. A sign outside his house shows an illustration of a gun and advises visitors that it is under video surveillance.”
It's available, yes. But there's a reason why it's not happening.
Almost nobody watches the evening network news shows. And those that do will die within ten years.
Why compete for that audience?
Thanks for that info. He lives like a CIA station chief.
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