The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine

David Brock · Ari Rabin-Havt · Media Matters for America

Feb 2012 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Bob Dunsworth

About this audiobook

Here is comprehensive overview of the tumultuous career of former Fox News president Roger Ailes and a must-read for anyone looking to understand his legacy and impact on news media. 

Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.

The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from his early work as a television producer and media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Consequently, when he was hired in 1996 as the president of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship conservative cable news network, Ailes had little journalism experience, but brought to the job the mindset of a political operative. As Brock and Rabin-Havt demonstrate through numerous examples, Ailes used his extraordinary power and influence to spread a partisan political agenda that is at odds with long-established, widely held standards of fairness and objectivity in news reporting.

Featuring transcripts of leaked audio and memos from Fox News reporters and executives, The Fox Effect is a damning indictment of how the network’s news coverage and commentators have biased reporting, drummed up marginal stories, and even consciously manipulated established facts in their efforts to attack the Obama administration.

Ratings and reviews

Conservatives are traitors and sell outs. They also judge others by appearance according to their standards and disrespect women. Yet fail to see their poor image. They are more likely to cheat and lack propper intelligence. If you defend yourself your called feminist. They want dictatorship and will ruin the country with their immoral attitude.

Not only did Conservatives create a propaganda machine, but they deemed every piece of information that doesn't suit thier narrative as propaganda.

Fox is intelligent and updated to the core. Much like CNN the media investigation projects widely around yhe globe with vast insights.

About the author

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

David Brock, the founder and CEO of Media Matters, is the author of five books, including The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy, and his bestselling memoir Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.

Ari Rabin-Havt is Media Matters's vice president of research and communication.