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Alongside all the hype and chatter about the January 6 anniversary, there was another worthy news story the first week of 2022. On Monday, January 3, a federal jury in California convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to defraud investors. Holmes, six years removed from being the richest self-made woman in the world, now faces as many as twenty years in prison, though she will likely receive less. While it’s always good to see criminals receive their just desserts, there is another upbeat aspect to the Holmes saga. The conviction of...

by Mark Finkelstein June 27, 2006 You're having a first conversation with someone. Alright, maybe you don't agree with him, but he seems rational. Then, out of the blue, he comes out with something so strange, so disconnected from reality, that you say to yourself 'whoah! - who is this guy?' And you go back and rethink everything else he had said in light of his suddenly-exposed madness. That's what is was like watching Chris Matthews' interview of Ken Auletta on this evening's Hardball. Alright, Auletta's the media columnist of the New Yorker. So you have no illusions. This is...

In advance of the May 26 publication of an article by New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta about Fox News Channel, the magazine on Monday released an interview with Auletta in which he cites recent research indicating that while CNN and Fox both attract about the same percentage of conservative viewers, Fox viewers stay tuned 70 percent longer than CNN viewers do and thereby account for the network's ratings success. Moreover, Auletta indicates, because Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is regarded as an administration ally, he has enjoyed unprecedented government access -- something that may have helped Geraldo Rivera during...

It's always amazing that establishment media figures, who are unable to discern any liberal bias at ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS, the news magazines and major newspapers, such as the New York Times, are so easily able to recognize conservative bias on the Fox News Channel. The latest examples: CBS's Dan Rather and New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, who has just written a story about FNC for that magazine.      Auletta's article is not online, but the DrudgeReport.com over the weekend relayed from it Rather's take on the Rupert Murdoch- owned FNC: "He finds it to his benefit to have...

This week in the magazine, Ken Auletta writes about Fox News, the all-news cable channel that, since it was designed and launched in 1997 by Rupert Murdoch with Roger Ailes at its head, has become the cable-news leader, making media stars of figures like Bill O'Reilly along the way. Here Auletta talks to The New Yorker's Amy Tübke-Davidson about Fox, its conservative political agenda, its personnel, and its future. AMY TÜBKE-DAVIDSON: You spent four months watching Fox News. What did you see?KEN AULETTA: I saw a news network that was not, as advertised, free of bias and "fair and balanced."...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN MAY 18, 2003 10:04:59 ET XXXXX FOX NEWS AILES GETS AULETTA-TREATMENT; NET MADE '$70 MILLION IN PROFIT' NEW YORKER's Ken Auletta debuts his essay on FOXNEWS chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes Monday in May 26 editions, hitting newsstands Monday. Details: "Cable is an edge business," Ailes explains. NBC's "Brian Williams has no edge, so he sits there and mumbles in his nice shirts and can't get through." MORE Of NBC's Chris Matthews, "If Chris Matthews worked for me, he'd be doing better....I wouldn't let him answer everybody's question for them. He asks the question. Then...