Posted on 07/25/2004 1:44:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes has "a few choice words" for his critics at MoveOn.org and his rivals at CNN, the upcoming issue of Broadcasting & Cable magazine reports.
Liberal activists at MoveOn and Common Cause tried unsuccessfully to get the Federal Trade Commission to come down hard on Fox, charging that its "fair and balanced" slogan is false advertising.
Ailes did not comment on the brouhaha while it was being played out.
But he opened up to B&C for its July 26 edition.
Ailes responded to his critics: "Their assumption is people made us No. 1 because people are stupid."
Some more Ailes' gems:
"I'm happy with MoveOn.org and Common Cause and those other clowns. They drove our ratings up 10%."
As for CNN, he asks: why do they hate America? "CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
On plans to spin off a business news channel from FNC: "Nothing is imminent. We thought we needed to compete with CNBC, but they're dead. We would launch in a clear climate."
On Dennis Miller's CNBC talk show: "We gave Dennis three minutes a week on Hannity & Colmes, and he was great. But if you're going to give a guy five hours a week and not support him with enough writers and producers, it's not going to work."
What is B&C?
Broadcasting & Cable magazine
CNN is a content provider.
It provides content to various markets, including the U.S., Europe, and the Arabic speaking Middle East. It just provides value-neutral content for each market. If it loses the U.S. market, but retains Europe and Greater Arabia, well there's still plenty of profit in that.
i LOVE dennis miller....hilarious...and a great show. i wish fox would pull him back because he's awesome.
Ouch, you hit a raw nerve. RINO republicans SUCK
I like Dennis too...he's getting better. Lose the monkey, it was cute at first. More often than not he actually asks the questions I'd ask someone, not the stupid canned questions. He's going to be here in San Diego next week. Maybe I'll go see his show.
ben and jerry are going around the country with a large photo of george bush with his "pants on fire." we could do the same with a democrat, but we'd be afraid we'd lose some secret documents.
losing that show would be a tragedy. the problem is there is no one hour slot on fox to air it. personally i prefer it to hannity and colmes, sorry to say.
dennis miller IS a republican..he said it the other day. 9/11 changed everything for him. mind you, he is not a social conservative. i just love his observations about the culture and he is on a journey...one to watch..he comes down HARD on dems...awesome show.
(whoops, I see it now, mentioned on the first line)
These are amazing public statements by Ailes. It seems to me that the issue of media bias is coming to some sort of head.
Here we have the chairman of the most popular cable news channel asking why other networks hate America (though I notice that the "hate America" part of that quote lies outside the quote marks in the article -- typo? or is that not what he actually said...hard to tell). This is not subtle parlor chat. This is pointing a big finger right at the other networks, accusing them right out in the open of the cardinal sin of presenting biased news.
I'd love nothing more than to see the media bigs have a public dust up over the issue of bias. It's the traditional news outlets who would suffer, not FOX. My guess is that the FOX guys would be more than happy to debate the issue noisily, for all to see. The traditional newsies would probably just like the issue to be hushed up.
Roger is right. CNN does hate America as long as W is President or any other True Republican.
CNN and all die-hard dims hate any Republican. No matter "who" they are.
Yo, to the Hate America Commies in charge of Communist Noodling News, put some ice on it, your girly its!
This is good!
The three legged rat killer, The Net, Talk Radio And Fox News, is slowly but surely squeezing the life oout ( a little petey boy lingo) of the ratmedia.
Whatever the quality of Miller's show, his ratings are lower than the balance of John Kerry's non-joint bank account.
Yes, they sure do!
I wish Fox had kept Miller, giving him some type of Cal Thomas-like show.
CNN is value neutral?
Oh lordy, [dabbing eyes] that's funny.
It is little wonder that foreign countries have a different opinion of us than we have of ourselves. Every time I'm abroad I cringe when I turn that channel on. The hatred for America, and especially of this administration, oozes out in every story they report.
BUMP!
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