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(11,014 posts) Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:41 PM Jul 2016

The one Roger Ailes hire that changed American politics forever

Roger Ailes’ 20-year reign as the chairman of Fox News ended this week, the result of a sexual harassment scandal.

He will be remembered by journalism ethicists as the poster boy for conflict of interest. But of Ailes’ many departures from journalistic norms of impartiality, the most egregious was his hiring of a cousin of presidential candidate George W. Bush during the 2000 election.

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But Ailes’ signature moment was bringing John Ellis on board to analyze the data provided by the Voter News Service on Election Night 2000.

To this day, some claim the networks suppressed Republican turnout by prematurely calling some states for Al Gore; others argue the networks, starting with Fox, influenced the outcome by prematurely calling the election for Bush.

One thing is known: Ellis was on the phone with the Republican nominee and his brother Jeb throughout the evening, and it was Ellis’ declaration that his kinsman was the winner that influenced all the projections that followed.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:56 PM

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getting away with it is one of many Rethug bag of tricks items. When you have the so called Media so compromised,you do not have to worry about truth and push back. Same just happened with the coronation this past week of a Reality TV Star as a Rethug Presidential Candidate. Was there any major out cry for all the lies and half truths as well as the name calling? Not in the Main Stream Media. Ailes is a master of sound bites and optics,and that is all Trump is,just a fake and self created character. And the so called Media was licking his boots and promoting his stupid.

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