Roger Ailes Buys his Hometown Newspaper - Guess What Happens Next.

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He makes his wife the publisher and turns a beloved, non-partisan 140-year-old local events rag into Fox News Rural Rightwing Propaganda Edition:

"Abstract

...One day in July, 2008, the paper carried the news that the paper had been sold. The new proprietor was Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News. His wife, Elizabeth, was to become the publisher. In Stewart’s circle, the news was not well received. Describes how Ailes and his wife came to live in Cold Spring. Elizabeth shares her husband’s political views, and, like him, she wanted the paper to have a role in events. Mentions Joe Lindsley, the paper’s executive editor. In spring of 2009, readers found something they’d never before seen in the P.C.N. & R.: an editorial. It criticized the Obama Administration’s bailouts and spending programs, and it also confirmed the worst fears of those who’d most regretted the ownership change."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/31/110131fa_fact_boyer#ixzz1DCAhVyRx

(requires subscription for full article)

Ailes' paper website:

http://www.pcnr.com/

Compare to philipstown.info, an online paper local resident Gordon Stewart set up with a different perspective:

http://www.philipstown.info/ptwp/

[KoKo]

1. This is an excellent read. Note Ailes having to go around with Security Protection

he is so disliked for what he did. Invading the Hudson Valley and taking over the Newspaper because it was critical of Ailes and his Wife barging into a community which was not FAUX NEWS.

[jody]

2. Is "Security Protection" just a cover for an extended entourage of personal servants all deductible

as business expenses to provide all sorts of security?

[KoKo]

4. Gotta give a kick because I lived for a time in that beautiful, historic are of NY State...

and was horrified at the AILES ...thinking they are ENTITLED moving in and pushing their weight around like it is "All about Them!"

Disgusting.

K&R :kick:

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. It's blasphemy.

[RandomThoughts]

5. The final death whimper

of someone without heart and thinking.

Why is it that?

You should be able to explain that if something is that.