Johnny Dollar reminds TCG that Fox News is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary on the air, and even rounds up some old screen grabsfrom from 1996. Have we really changed that much? I know I haven't :-)!
But seriously folks, it's been a wild ride, this past decade. I can remember that the big buzz of 1996 was MSNBC: how the genius visionary Bill Gates (true!) of Microsoft and the equally genius visionary Bob Wright (not so true) of NBC were going to come together in a grand collaboration that would herald the New Media future. So MSNBC got all the buzz after it premiered in August of '96, while Fox News seemed like sort of an afterthought.
Gee, the world has changed since, huh? Roger Ailes, who gets credit, even from his detractors , for being a genius, looms as one of the transformative figures in American life in this past decade.
Which reminds me: Where's Ailes' memoir, anyway? It would be a Jack Welch-like publishing sensation.
