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The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine Audiobook
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Here is comprehensive overview of the tumultuous career of former Fox News president Roger Ailes and a must-read for anyone looking to understand his legacy and impact on news media. Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party. The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from his early work as a television producer and media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Consequently, when he was hired in 1996 as the president of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship conservative cable news network, Ailes had little journalism experience, but brought to the job the mindset of a political operative. As Brock and Rabin-Havt demonstrate through numerous examples, Ailes used his extraordinary power and influence to spread a partisan political agenda that is at odds with long-established, widely held standards of fairness and objectivity in news reporting. Featuring transcripts of leaked audio and memos from Fox News reporters and executives, The Fox Effect is a damning indictment of how the network’s news coverage and commentators have biased reporting, drummed up marginal stories, and even consciously manipulated established facts in their efforts to attack the Obama administration.
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"Though Fox viewers are not likely to read this...they are in desperate need of doing so...they are so poorly misinformed of their "fair and balanced" station. And that's not to say all media doesn't have severe limitations...but Fox just goes beyond the pale..."
— L (5 out of 5 stars)
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" Quite revealing look on how Fox News has warped and ruined American politics. Pretty depressing, but definitely something worth reading. "
— Amanda, 1/17/2014 -
" A must read. Unfortunately, those that actually need to read it, won't. "
— Robert, 12/22/2013 -
" I'll admit this book was preaching to the choir. I only wish staunch Faux fans like my dad would give this book a chance. "
— Jackie, 12/7/2013 -
" Well, now I am mad. Ps, I love David Brock! "
— Jimmie, 11/28/2013 -
" I have not read this book yet. But neither has the person who slapped a one-star review upon it. So let's just go ahead and re-set the ratings. It's got a knee-jerk one-star rating and a knee-jerk five star rating. Now, what does it actually deserve? "
— Jason, 9/24/2013 -
" It's mostly liberal propaganda but it was a decent read. I always enjoy seeing what the enemy is thinking. "
— Todd, 8/21/2013 -
" Great breakdown of why you can't trust Fox News. Too bad the people who need to read it (Fox viewers) never would give it a chance. "
— Scott, 8/12/2013 -
" Interesting book! Both sides of the political aisle do their share of propaganda making it difficult to navigate through it all to get to the truth. "
— Barbara, 7/6/2013 -
" A pretty scary look into the world of Fox News, but also a brutally honest look. "
— Amanda, 3/22/2013 -
" We all know Fox News is corrupt and deals in lies. The Fox Effect lines up the smoking guns. "
— Kyle, 11/26/2012
About the Authors
David Brock, the founder and CEO of Media Matters, is the author of many books, including The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy, and his bestselling memoir Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.
Ari Rabin-Havt is Media Matters’ vice president of research and communication.
Media Matters for America is a web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media.