That's the headline atop Phil Rosenthal's piece in The Chicago Tribune this morning.
"I would have paid him 100 grand to help us with marketing, just to get a half-hour of his time," Ailes told Rosenthal. "As it turned out, I got a half-hour of his time and he did it for nothing. We're very grateful. ... He's kept us in the news for six days."
As discussed here in the past, the weirdness of the cable game includes the reality that antagonists can end up as "objective allies," which is to say, helping each other.
But Ailes added an important point, when he noted, "We've been criticized by seven important people in the last week, attacking Fox News for bias. All of them attacked us on Fox News. We let them come on and say whatever they want. The odd part is here's the former president sitting on our air attacking us for not being fair, and he's saying whatever he wants. That's pretty fair. That's the point that every writer has missed."
But not Rosenthal, who got it and reported it. That is, he reported what was said, both for and against Fox, and now we the readers get to decide what we think, agree or disagree. That's the right way to do journalism. There's a phrase for that...
