Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? (Esquire hit piece - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Esquire ^ | January 18, 2011 | Tom Junod

[Zakeet]

They're really scared.

They should be.

These clowns are part of Hearst, along with other stellar magazines such as: Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Oprah, Redbook and Seventeen. Newspapers include: the San Fran Sicko Comical, the Houston Comical, and the San Antonio Expressed Snooze. They used to own the Seattle Post Intelligencer ... but something happened to the rag and it's no longer alive.

Much of their business has been going into the dumpsters for years.

[Dr. Sivana]

Did this guy write this with a straight face?

Even if he did, did Esquire fire its editors? This is two levels down from Mother Jones.

[Cicero]

At one time, Esquire used to be classy, at least. Or at least kind of classy. Now they wouldn't know what a gentleman was even if they were kicked by one:

[andy58-in-nh]

Consider the source. Pick up an issue of Esquire at the newsstand sometime and open it up: it smells like a woman's fashion magazine. There is a reason for that - a preponderance of fragrance advertisements, as well as jewelry and fashion. It is Vogue for a class of liberal male metrosexuals who actually care what Frank Rich thinks, watch subtitled films because they believe it makes them smarter, and go to parties with women who swear more than they do.

[detective]

“Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? An exclusive and unbiased investigation into the highly paid operative of a foreign-born tycoon”

“Esquire is completely unbiased, and beholden to no agendas”

Right off the bat, the first sentence is wrong. Roger Ailes doesn't hate America. The article starts with a false premise and then brags about how “unbiased” they are. The article then makes one false statement after another and then repeats about half of them. Then after sounding pretentious and confused the author gets all upset because Meghan Kelly and some of the other women on Fox are too attractive.

The author sounds like an immature little boy who thinks he's so clever and can't get over the fact that someone might actually read this nonsense and there might even be someone stupid enough to believe it.

Esquire magazine is losing readership and should soon go bankrupt. The sooner the better.

[sappy]

completely. read his May 2010 slobbering about Hillary.

what i find amazing is that libs love to attack private citizens as much as they do elected republicans and conservatives.

[Erasmus]

I can tell a homocrush when I see one.

[SuziQ]

*snort* As I suspected. Slobbering over Soros.

[abb]

http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=148268
A New Crack in Cable’s Monopoly: WealthTV
One Network Bypasses Cable and Goes Straight to the Box

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/01/as_portland_media_shrink_metro.html
As Portland media shrink, Metro joins a national trend by hiring a reporter to cover itself

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/462562-Sources_FCC_Comcast_NBCU_Vote_Expected_Today.php
Sources: FCC Comcast/NBCU Vote Expected Today

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=143118
Media Buyers To Wall Street: Online Will Be Up 11% in ‘11, Mobile To Break Billion Mark

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=143068
Pew: Groups Embrace Internet, Social Media

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=143083
Paper Cuts: Magazine Ad Recovery Uneven

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Cable_20/Mixed-reviews-for-Piers-Morgan-Tonight-.asp
Mixed reviews for ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’

[abb]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704029704576088133244612872.html
Golden Globes Pulls In Flat Results

[bert]

The world that was is no more. The world that was is crumbling, falling apart before their eyes. The work they have done seems for naught as the process continues unabated.

Here the man sits. Like an engineering school freshmen who was told to look to his left and to his right to see two thirds of those assembled and will not graduate engineers, he sees two thirds of his peers either gone or going. Death stalks the halls.

Fear is a mild description of the real doomsday atmosphere

Surely Roger Ailes is the devil, or perhaps the precipitating liquid which swirls with the fall out of dead publications,dying organizational structures and colleagues wrapped in pink slip shrouds.

[abb]

...or perhaps the precipitating liquid which swirls with the fall out of dead publications,dying organizational structures and colleagues wrapped in pink slip shrouds.

Sort of like "The Dip" we saw in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

[Elwood P. Doud]

This is a parody, right?

[El Cid]

Did Loughner write a guest article for Esquire magazine?

I just read the first few sentances, but it looked like I was being asked to take a walk through crazy town...
What I took away:

* Mr. Ailes is foreign born ... Did I mention that he was foreign born ... from a foreign country?
* Evil Mr. Ailes makes a lot of money. Maybe not as much as Opry, or hundreds of professional athletes, or Hollywood 'star' ... but hey, he makes a lot of money... And darnnit... that's just not right...
* Fox makes a bunch of money. Boo-hoo. All media should be run for losses, and be subsidized by the Government. To make money by producing a product that appeals to people ... well, that's just unAmerican (Did I mention that Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are foreign born?)
* Fox is 'anti-Government'. [Note, only the most avowed Anarchist is actually anti-Government. Anyone who loves America - as created by the Founding Fathers, and defined in the US Constitution - hates BIG Government].

So I stopped reading after the first few sentences. Maybe the Loughner ghost writer stumbled into sections of coherence along the way -- but I bailed out of reading this article because it was abusing my brain cells.

[windsorknot]

Whatever Ailes you, Esquire.

[nathanbedford]

And censorship is still censorship whether it comes from the left or the right.

[Zakeet]

A few comments on your multi-posting thread:

A New Crack in Cable’s Monopoly: WealthTV

This is actually a huge story about a new technology which will transform the media business like television transformed radio and Hollywood a few decades ago. Imagine getting only the channels you want, without going through a Time Weirder or CommieCast.

The barn door is open and the animals are starting to get loose. The cablers will never get their livestock back into their cages.

It'll murder their bottom lines.

As Portland media shrink, Metro joins a national trend by hiring a reporter to cover itself

The local government is hiring a reporter to gin out news stories. He is an addition to their 25 existing newsers.

The obvious implication: local media is incapable of doing their jobs and will be even more of a propaganda organ than they already are.

Media Buyers To Wall Street: Online Will Be Up 11% in ‘11, Mobile To Break Billion Mark

Or in other words, part of the business, albeit a small segment, is actually growing ... and more important, it ain't the part controlled by the big boys.

Paper Cuts: Magazine Ad Recovery Uneven

Or in other words, it's still business as usual for the mag rags. Some special segments such as car ads are selling because people are buying again, at least for the short term. Other products are dropping like a rock because the mag market is in the toiled.

Tellingly, the article only discussed ad pages and not ad revenues, presumably because the latter is down significantly ... again. The article also omits all mention of newser mags such as Time and NewsWeak, again in an effort to cook the books by making the business look better than it actually is.

Mixed reviews for ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’

Snort

Last night, the Brit Twit asked Oprah some tough questions (no idea what they were) while fawning all over the drama queen. Tonight, he goes after the Howard Stern in an interview in which they discuss various parts of his anatomy as well as the king of all media's hair.

Important and heady stuff all right. Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren are probably trembling with fear. And definitely a major leap forward for good old Chicken Noodle News.

Conclusion: It's business as usual for your bone head buddies running the mainstream media ... and that business isn't so good right now.

[abb]

My ‘journalism’ and history study is still proceeding.

Reading now:

The Postal Age - The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
By David M. Henkin

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/327205.html

[onyx]

Thank you veru much for the information about this *SFB writer*
and also for the ping to his *article* I would have otherwise missed!

Long Live Roger Ailes!

I’m bookmarking this hit-piece.