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The Fox News chief also denies Rolling Stone’s report about having blast-resistant office windows. Roger Ailes is asked by Howard Kurtz about Rolling Stone’s charge that he’s “built the most formidable propaganda machine ever seen outside of the Communist bloc.” Ailes does a bit of jujitsu, writes Kurtz, accusing NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times, and the rest of running “a liberal propaganda machine … If they did fair and balanced news, we’d be out of business.” || Meanwhile, Michael Wolff claims the Ailes profiles in Rolling Stone and New York fail to capture the essence of the Fox News chairman.
The articles are right in seeing Ailes in a losing position, but only because there is nothing left to win. For both Murdoch and Ailes, the next generation is an inevitable, if also a distracted and uncertain, force—which will show them to the door.
Ailes ought to be a figure of awe, as much as opprobrium. If you don’t get the singularity of the man, you don’t get the man, the likes of whom, for better or worse, we won’t see again.
