The Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal scores an interview with Roger Ailes. And, of course, the subject of Howell Raines comes up:
Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines, in a March 14 Washington Post essay, asked, "Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration?"
Ailes is dismissive of Raines ("All the other channels apparently give him what he wants," he said) and even more so of the notion that Fox News has not faced criticism.
"That's hysterical," Ailes said. "Fox has taken more incoming; we have a bigger bull's-eye on us than anybody. What he's upset about is we haven't been hit." Obama, whose administration took flak from other news operations last year when it tried to isolate Fox News, last week sat for an interview with the channel's Bret Baier.
"Look, they understand the game," Ailes said. "They did the right thing, and we respect them for it."
As noted here at TCG, Barack Obama goes on Fox, and five days later, five pro-life Democrats switch positions, and his healthcare vote passes by three votes. That says something about the power of Fox.
