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Tuesday, Sep 02
Ailes and Obama Called Truce?Michael Wolff's nearly 4,000-word feature profile of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch for the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair is not exactly a glowing profile: "For the first three months of our interviews, he never addressed a word to or even looked at my research assistant, Leela de Kretser, who was at each of the sessions, and ignored her questions — perhaps because it's not necessary to acknowledge a girl, or possibly because it was embarrassing for him that she was, at the time, a pregnant girl." Relating to TV news, it delves into an "early summer," meeting between Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and Sen. Barack Obama at the Waldorf-Astoria, arranged by Murdoch:
Also in the piece, Murdoch's thoughts on Fox News — and they're sure to surprise. Click continued to see that excerpt... Fox has been his alter ego. For a long time he was in love with the Fox chief, Roger Ailes, because he was even more Murdoch than Murdoch. And yet now the embarrassment can't be missed — he mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it; he barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly. And while it is not possible that he would give Fox up — because the money is the money; success trumps all — in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets. Email This Post |
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