Corporate McPravda Represents One of Our Biggest Problems

[Octafish]

...Especially FOX News. That outfit is run on behalf of Rupert Murdoch by one Roger Ailes, former toady to the likes of George Herbert CIA in Dallas Walker Bush, Ronald Arms to Terrorists Reagan, and Richard Nixon the Crook. They have no love for real Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, or anyone interested in peace, justice, civil rights, and making life better for everybody other than the 1-percent.



A little backstory on Mr. Ailes, above in the Oval Office with Bebe Rebozo's best buddy. The fellow's been around and as much as any CEO, lowly clerk or hireling is responsible for producing the stinking heap of rightwing crap people see, hear, read, think and believe:


Richard Nixon and Roger Ailes 1970s plan to put the GOP on TV

Melissa Bell
Washington Post

EXCERPT...

A memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring pro-administration stories to television networks around the country. It reads: “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. [font color="red"]The thinking is done for you.[/font color]”

CONTINUED...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/richard-nixon-and-roger-ailes-1970s-plan-to-put-the-gop-on-tv/2011/07/01/AG1W7XtH_blog.html


Rolling Stone provides another good read:

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525#ixzz1i4D2slCf


So. Does anyone else have a problem with this or with understanding why the nation is so screwed up for the 99-percent and so few answers are in sight?

For that matter, does anyone remember why Liberal Democrats appreciated the Fairness Doctrine and were furious when our Democratic Party's leaders let it fall by the legislative wayside?