29th May 2011, 8:26 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:It wasn't much different then though...
All the liberal commentators, such as they were, are totally gone. You've got Sean Hannity by himself for a whole hour and Glenn Beck. Plus, Obama's election, the Democrats taking Congress, and the rise of Tea Party movement have made things way worse than they've ever been. Doesn't mean that Fox News was a serious news station back then, because it wasn't, but there's been a definite change.
Edit: Fittisize, I don't think the point of the article is to somehow suggest that Ailes is the first person to do this kind of thing or that he's evil for wanting lots of money, but that no one has been able to carry out such a wide-spread propaganda campaign in the guise of real news as Ailes is doing right now [and fairly successfully].
Sometimes you get the scorpion.