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  1. Ailes transformed and conserved America. No Ailes means no President Trump. Think about media today with no Fox News and just CNN and MSNBC. Rupert gave him the money but he made it happen.

    Aside: Rupert had hired RWR speech writer Peter Robinson to start Fox but pulled the plug due to timing.

    The guy was a giant political and media figure. And look who his enemies are.

  2. Murdoch’s sons apparently want to change the Fox brand established by Ailes so they will be invited to parties by Sulzberger and Bebos. Remember what happened with new Coke when they changed the recipe? Everybody decided the new recipe tasted awful and stopped buying Coke.

  3. Ailes built a great brand in FoxNews, a brand you see sinking into the swamp since his departure from the business.

  4. So very often we read or learn about someone over 70 falling with a resultant injury that proves directly or indirectly fatal.
    Diffuse decline in muscle mass is associated with aging. We all see the skinny elderly all the time. The overweight elderly, like Ailes, have their shrinking muscle mass hidden from view, but the shrinkage is still there.
    I am persuaded that age-related diffuse muscle wasting is a leading cause of death. But no one does anything about it. Most don’t think about it, which is why I post about it here and now.
    HIV-associated muscle wasting was treated with anabolic (muscle-building) steroids, but these are no longer available in the USA for anyone. Of course, no one dies of HIV-associated muscle wasting any more, thanks to the drugs developed, in part out of a sense of political correctness. Billions were mobilized for people who couldn’t keep their pants on.
    But the elderly, Pfagh! They have a duty to get out of the way.

  5. Ailes had hemophilia his entire life. That had something to do with his death.

  6. Fox News has been a mainstay of my TV viewing since 1998. We need many more Roger Ailes in the conservative movement. Getting the message out there is important and he did it.
    RIP Roger Ailes.

    As mentioned above, we see quite a lot of change at Fox already. not necessarily good. More youth but less gravitas. Well, I still watch but with a more critical eye.

    Frog, thanks for speaking up for the old and frail. My 80 year old next door neighbor did just about the same thing as Ailes. Went into the bathroom, fell over backward and hit his head. Died two days later. He was rather frail. I am convinced that strength training has helped me weather two major surgeries in the last eighteen months. Five months since the last and worst surgery and I am now back to squatting, dead lifting, bench pressing, and lat pulldowns. Half way to the weights I was handling before the surgeries. If things keep improving I will make it all the way back in six more months. I don’t care about how I look. I just want to be strong enough to be able to handle working in the yard, wheeling bags through airline terminals, and other things that I never thought twice about three years ago. Anabolic steroids would undoubtedly get me there quicker. And maybe keep me there longer. Which would be nice. 🙂

  7. RIP Ailes.

    Setting aside his flaws, he built a media alternative that served an audience in the midst of msm dominance.

    That was an impressive feat, and a culturally important one.
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    Several seem to make it sound like his successors want to just become another bland me-too msm network.

    Highly doubt that.

    That’s like taking a craft beer enterprise and retooling it to exclusively serve its own bland Coors Lite, in the face of a well occupied space of competitors in the market.

    More likely we are seeing FNC trying to deal with the very same split in their audience that we have seen on the Republican side.

    Also, they may have found, after a history of keeping such things quite, that they can no longer afford to countenance, let alone pay out for, behavior that may be overly questionable, if not unacceptable.

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