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‘55 to Dead’

“‘I created a TV network for people 55 to dead,’ Ailes boasted to us. ‘Nobody believed it could be done, but I did it. It’s for guys who sit on their couch with the remote all day and night. ‘And they don’t want to see anyone like you,’ he continued, looking directly at me. 

“I wasn’t sure whether he meant a liberal, or a brunette newswoman in a dark pantsuit. ‘They don’t want to see you — they don’t even want to know that you exist!’ 

“And he was obliging them: he’d created a world where women were blonde and wore short tight skirts, men were in charge, and articulate, principled, complicated liberals — especially women — didn’t exist.” 

—Joan Walsh, national affairs correspondent, “My Only Meeting with Roger Ailes,” The Nation, May 18, 2017.

 
• Editorial Comment: Fox is closing in on 16 years as the No. 1 cable news network. Is that commentary on Roger Ailes, or us?



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