Two-thirds of TV critics walk out of meet before Fox News' Ailes speaks

[DeepModem Mom]

Miami Herald: Fox News' Ailes says he's just getting started
PASADENA, Calif.
BY GLENN GARVIN

Firing poison darts at his cable-news competitors and taunting his critics in the media, Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes celebrated the 10th birthday of his network, but instead of cake, served notice that his conquest of other television empires already is under way.

Ailes announced he will syndicate a morning news show throughout the broadcast television world starting in January, said plans for a new business-news cable channel are heating up and even spoke longingly of launching an evening newscast on Fox broadcast stations to compete with NBC, ABC and CBS -- though he admitted the odds are against that last one ever coming to pass.

''Would I like to do it?'' mused Ailes. "Sure. I basically am competitive, and I have great confidence in our people. But there is not a great demand for another newscast at 6:30, and you now have three important people doing those newscasts, and the Fox stations do better with other types of programming at that time.''

Ailes made his comments during an appearance Monday evening before North American television critics, a hostile audience that generally makes no secret of its contempt for his network. Fox News panels here have often been something closer to hand-to-hand combat than to news conferences, and this one was no exception.

About two-thirds of the 150 critics left the room before Ailes took the stage, several of them openly voicing their scorn for what they say is Fox News' conservative spin....

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/15122821.htm

[niyad]

1. "faux does better with other types of programming". . yes, called lies,

spin, deception and mindless crap.

[snappyturtle]

2. Yeah! nt

[sallyseven]

3. The world would be a better place with out Fox news.

Or even better without Roger Ailes.

[kitkat65]

4. The revolution will not be televised . . . on Fox. eom

[TahitiNut]

5. Ailes' "competitive" means "amorally predatory"

There is no room for "peaceful coexistence" in the Ailes mindset - nor is there an ounce of intellectual honesty. None. Zip. Nada.

Sociopathically exploitative.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. A faux business channel.

I would trust that about as much as I trust the spam that shows up in my E-mail as "Hot stock tips". Oh well if it's anything like their news channel they'll have the $uckers cleaned out in no time.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Good for them! Glad to see there are some professionals who still care

about what goes into the nightly newscasts.