Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes (2013)

Roger Eugene Ailes (* 15. May 1940 in Warren , Ohio ; † 18th May 2017 in Palm Beach ) was a US -American television producer and 20 years CEO of the conservative TV channel Fox News . He was media advisor to Republican Presidents Richard Nixon , Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush .

Life

Ailes was born in Warren , Ohio in 1940 . He attended Ohio University in Athens , which he left in 1962 with a bachelor's degree . After completing his studies, he initially worked for a regional media company, and in 1967 Richard Nixon's election campaign team hired him as a consultant. In the following years, Ailes worked as a television and musical producer and media consultant.

In 1993 he became President of CNBC . He is considered to be responsible for the higher ratings and greater profitability that the station subsequently achieved. In 1996 he designed Fox News for Rupert Murdoch and became its CEO. Under his leadership, Fox News became the most successful news broadcaster in the United States.

In July 2016, allegations of sexual harassment against Ailes became known. As head of Fox News , he is said to have sexually molested presenter Gretchen Carlson for years. In 2016, she filed a lawsuit against Ailes, now dismissed. After other employees of the station, including Megyn Kelly , had joined the allegations, Ailes resigned on July 21, 2016 all functions at Fox News , which Rupert Murdoch took over temporarily. Ailes received $ 40 million in severance payment from Murdoch. On August 8, 2016, Andrea Tantaros informed her lawyer that she had been sexually molested by Ailes on several occasions since August 12, 2014; Her refusals to Ailes and formal complaints about the harassment at high positions by FNC are said to have led Tantaros to her transfer from the panel show The Five to the talk show Outnumbered and her complete suspension.

Roger Ailes, a hemophiliacs , fell in his home on May 10, 2017, sustaining a head injury and died on May 18, 2017 at the age of 77.

Books

Roger Ailes (1988): You Are the Message: Secrets of the Master Communicators (with Jon Kraushar).
Kerwin Swint (2008): Dark Genius. The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and Fox News Founder Roger Ailes .
Gabriel Sherman: (2014): The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country. Random House, ISBN 978-0812992854 .

reception

Excerpts from Roger Ailes interviews are shown in the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism . He is portrayed by Russell Crowe in the TV series The Loudest Voice on Showtime (2019) . The film Bombshell explores the allegations of sexual harassment that eventually led to his release.

Web links

Commons : Roger Ailes - collection of images, videos and audio files

David Brock: Roger Ailes is mad as hell. In: New York , November 17, 1997 ( preview, English ).
Tom Junod: Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? In: Esquire , January 18, 2011 (English).
David Carr, Tim Arango: A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics. In: The New York Times , January 9, 2010.
Jill Lepore: Bad News. The reputation of Roger Ailes. In: The New Yorker , January 20, 2014 (English).
Marc Fisher: Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77. In: The Washington Post , May 18, 2017.
Matt Taibbi : Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever , Rolling Stone , May 18, 2017 (English)

Individual evidence

^ Roger Ailes ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Entry at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, accessed May 10, 2011.
^ Felix Gillette: Roger and Me: Some CNBC Staffers Are Pining for Ailes. ( Memento of October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Observer , September 18, 2007.
↑ Jan Fleischhauer: Halali for Fox hunting. In: Der Spiegel , No. 33/2004.
^ Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations. In: 21CF.com , July 21, 2016 (English).
↑ Willi Winkler: In continuous fire. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 228, 1./2./3. October 2016, p. 45.
↑ Gabriel Sherman: Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes. In: New York Magazine , August 8, 2016.
↑ Winand von Petersdorff: Fox News founder Roger Ailes is dead. In: FAZ.NET . May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ailes, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ailes, Roger Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American television producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warren , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	18th May 2017
Place of death	Palm Beach , Florida

[1] Roger Ailes ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Entry at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, accessed May 10, 2011.

[2] Felix Gillette: Roger and Me: Some CNBC Staffers Are Pining for Ailes. ( Memento of October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Observer , September 18, 2007.

[3] Jan Fleischhauer: Halali for Fox hunting. In: Der Spiegel , No. 33/2004.

[4] Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations. In: 21CF.com , July 21, 2016 (English).

[5] Willi Winkler: In continuous fire. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 228, 1./2./3. October 2016, p. 45.

[6] Gabriel Sherman: Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes. In: New York Magazine , August 8, 2016.

[7] Winand von Petersdorff: Fox News founder Roger Ailes is dead. In: FAZ.NET . May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .