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

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

Feb 2012 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

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

I find it hilarious how the left attacks Fox News, yet seem unaffected by the massive hypocrisy one can find at CNN and the majority of liberal outlets that dot this nation like some pestilent outbreak. And the only horror present is the level of ignorance that can be found in the liberal base that continues to support an ideology that lives off of division, intolerance, bigotry and .......hypocrisy. When it comes to hypocrites, the left, well wrote the book on it.

This just shows to what extent Media Matters will go to silence the voice of the right. I would suggest that you do your own research. This organization is becoming more and more well known for their attacks on conservatives, using half-truths and outright lies in a thinly veiled attempt to promote their own agenda. They are upset that while their favorite liberal media outlets are suffering from loss of viewership, Fox Network continues to gain audience numbers simply by presenting both sides.

Haven't read it. Wont read it. Another example of left-wing socialist garbage. When is the left wing media going to lose its wide eyed infatuation with this administration. Fox might be biassed to the right but its refreshing to see a media outlet who has the balls to show news stories that you will never see on the other stations.

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.