Very good article on Roger Ailes, head of Fox News. Scary read.

It's a fascinating and scary read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/10/roger-ailes-fox-news-murdoch

If your life is reflected in your looks, a la Dorian Grey, it seems to have placed its ugliness on both men's faces as they age. Sarah Palin needs to watch out. She may age like them if she doesn't change her ways.

Good article - read it yesterday

"According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Sharia law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama's citizenship. At the height of the healthcare debate, more than two-thirds of Fox News viewers were convinced Obamacare would lead to a "government takeover", provide healthcare to illegal immigrants, pay for abortions and let the government decide when to pull the plug on grandma. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland revealed that ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. That's because Ailes isn't interested in providing people with information, or even a balanced range of perspectives. Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimisation."

The fact that they can make it feel like you are living in an almost totalitarian state. The fact that they can make it feel like you are the minority, the one with the crazy views, when the truth is that they are the ones. We're talking about right wing Orwellianism here.