Faux news history..Fox News was created by Nixon to be the Republican Party's Voice in America..

[monkeyofstick]

"A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News" (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the "censorship" of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype. From context provided by other memos, it's apparent that the plan was hatched during the summer of 1970. And though it's not clear who wrote it, the copy provided by the Nixon Library literally has Ailes' handwriting all over it—it appears he was routed the memo by Haldeman and wrote back his enthusiastic endorsement, refinements, and a request to run the project in the margins.
The 15-page plan begins with an acknowledgment that television had emerged as the most powerful news source in large part because "people are lazy" and want their thinking done for them:simple news for lazy thinkers

Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
With that in mind, the anonymous GOP official urged the creation of a network "to provide pro-Administration, videotape, hard news actualities to the major cities of the United States." Aware that the national television networks were the enemy, the writer proposed going around them by sending packaged, edited news stories and interviews with politicians directly to local With regard to the news programming effort as proposed last summer, Ailes feels this is a good idea and that we should be going ahead with it. Haldeman suggested the name 'Capitol News Service' and Ailes will probably be doing more work in this area.
The idea as initially envisioned doesn't appear to have gotten off the ground. But Ailes obviously did do "more work in this area," first with something called Television News Incorporated (TVN), a right-wing news service Ailes worked on in the early 1970s after he got fired by the White House. According to Rolling Stone, TVN was financed by conservative beermonger Joseph Coors, and its mandate sounds exactly like a privately funded version of Capitol News Service: "[TVN] was designed to inject a far-right slant into local news broadcasts by providing news clips that stations could use without credit—and at a fraction of the true costs of production." Ailes was "the godfather behind the scenes" of TVN, Rolling Stone reported, and it was where he first encountered the motto that would make his career: "Fair and balanced."
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/...e-connect/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/...-students/
To be honest,Nixons ideas were great if you were a rich republican, but his horrible math and leadership skills,well,go back and read any of the of the add ons and extensions to this article,and figure it out...I give up...
http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-se...x-news/all

http://conspiro.org/Thread-Faux-news-history

[DFW]

1. I still remember when this was floated by the Nixon White House

My father, who was a member of the Washington print press at the time was appalled. He called up Mike Mansfield (D-MT), who was Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate at the time, and was hoping for a scathing comment. Cautious as always, Mansfield, said it was an "interesting concept," and refused to condemn it. My dad was appalled, but didn't say so in print. He was a journalist, not an editorial writer, and he was of a generation that respected objectivity, whether the news was good or bad. At the dinner table, however, he went nuts, incredulous that Mansfield didn't condemn the idea in the strongest terms.

Maybe if the Ailes/Nixon suggestion had received the vehement condemnation it deserved at the time--and let's not forget, it never happened--Fox "News" might not ever had been attempted.

Remember, to the radical right, "slanted news" only means news that doesn't say what they want it to. To them, that meant Walter Cronkite. To the rest of us, "slanted news" means reporting that says what the one(s) reporting it want(s) the news to be, not what it is.

[liberal N proud]

2. "The thinking is done for you" The real FOX slogan

It is also why liberal talk shows on radio or TV never make it.