{"id":11223,"date":"2014-01-09T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:16:11","slug":"unbelievable-how-fox-news-ceo-roger-ailes-distorted-a-middle-school-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11223","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable: How Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Distorted A Middle School Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now anyone who is paying attention knows that Fox News is a disreputable purveyor of heavily biased propaganda on behalf of the Republican Party and conservative politics. The network openly favors GOP\/Tea Party pundits and politicians and has even been caught<\/a> reporting Republican press releases verbatim as if they were independently sourced news stories.<\/p>\n

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Now an excerpt<\/a> from an upcoming biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes provides an outstanding illustration of the mindset that runs Fox News. The book, “The Loudest Voice In The Room”<\/em><\/a> by Gabriel Sherman, was excerpted in New York Magazine and includes a passage about how Ailes intervened with the reporting in a local newspaper he owns in Putnam County, New York, where he lives in a mountaintop estate. The entire excerpt offers a revealing look into the thought processes of Ailes as he seeks to dominate any environment in which he resides – even a small upstate New York hamlet and its local news, schools, and government.<\/p>\n

Another drama erupted after a reporter named Michael Turton was assigned to cover Haldane Middle School\u2019s mock presidential election. After the event, Turton filed a report headlined \u201cMock Election Generated Excitement at Haldane; Obama Defeats McCain by 2\u20131 Margin.\u201d He went on, \u201cThe 2008 U.S. presidential election is now history. And when the votes were tallied, Barack Obama had defeated John McCain by more than a two to one margin. The final vote count was 128 to 53.\u201d Reading the published version a few days later, Turton was shocked. The headline had been changed: \u201cMock Presidential Election Held at Haldane; Middle School Students Vote to Learn Civic Responsibility.\u201d So had the opening paragraph: \u201cHaldane students in grades 6 through 8 were entitled to vote for president and they did so with great enthusiasm.\u201d Obama\u2019s margin of victory was struck from the article. His win was buried in the last paragraph.<\/p>\n

Turton was upset, and wrote a questioning e-mail to [editor Maureen]<\/em> Hunt, but never heard back. Instead, he received a series of accusatory e-mails from the Aileses. Turton had disregarded \u201cspecific instructions\u201d for the piece, Beth wrote. \u201cDo you anticipate this becoming an ongoing problem for you?\u201d A short while later, Roger weighed in. Maureen Hunt\u2019s instructions to focus on the school\u2019s process for teaching about elections had been \u201cvery clear,\u201d he wrote, and Turton\u2019s \u201cdesire to change the story into a big Obama win\u201d should have taken a backseat. Ailes described himself as \u201cdisappointed\u201d by Turton\u2019s failure \u201cto follow the agreed upon direction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The unfolding of events in this deliberate act of interference with a journalist’s role in reporting the news mirrors perfectly the sort of heavy-handed control that Ailes wields over Fox News. It is easy to see the parallels between this microcosm of journalism and the obvious distortions of reality<\/a> that occur on Fox News every day.<\/p>\n

This excerpt is a tantalizing morsel of what the book promises to deliver when it is released later this month. It is written in a compelling way, with credible sources, profound revelations, and dramatic flair. Consequently, we can expect Fox News to mount a fierce smear campaign against the book and its author as its release nears and in the weeks that follow. Indeed, it has already begun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now anyone who is paying attention knows that Fox News is a disreputable purveyor of heavily biased propaganda on behalf of the Republican Party and conservative politics. The network openly favors GOP\/Tea Party pundits and politicians and has even been caught reporting Republican press releases verbatim as if they were independently sourced news stories. 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