Fox News 1.0 Revisiting TVN, Roger Ailes’ first stab at running a TV news operation
Via Slate
Fox News 1.0 Revisiting TVN, Roger Ailes’ first stab at running a TV news operation.
By Jack Shafer
Decades before Roger Ailes birthed the Fox News Channel for proud papa Rupert Murdoch, he had already played a role in creating a national conservative television news network—Television News Inc.
In Dark Genius, a new biography of Ailes, Kerwin Swint revisits the dawn—1973—and early demise—1975—of the news service funded by conservative brewer Joseph Coors to counter the “liberal” TV networks. Coors, a profligate donor to conservative candidates, causes, and institutions, thought the media needed an ameliorating conservative voice, too.
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