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Monday, May 23, 2011

Ailes, Beck, and Fox

New York magazine has a long, slightly gossipy article about how Roger Ailes got to the point where he had to fire Glenn Beck, after having wooed Beck to Fox a mere two years earlier. Beck was merely one of the many high-profile commentators, most of them former Republican politicians, that Ailes secured in the wake of Barack Obama's presidential victory, all in an attempt to secure Fox News' audience at a time when the country seemed to have turned against conservative politics.

Behind-the-scenes personnel changes, a perceived hardening of the tone at Fox News, disputes between Fox News heavyweights like Sean Hannity and Beck, and even clashes between Ailes and members of Rupert Murdoch's family -- this article has a lot of juicy details about how Ailes has navigated a turbulent decade in his job, even as he has put hundreds of millions in profits into Murdoch's pocket and turned himself into a presidential kingmaker.

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