Roger Ailes

Ailes: Obama faces great challenges...

Published:Tuesday, November 11, 2008 By William K. Alcorn WARREN — Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News and former Republican presidential campaign insider, says Democratic President-elect Barack Obama has inherited bigger...

Fox News' Ailes reveals the secret to his success

Vindicator "I stand up for what I believe. I don't back off," Roger Ailes said during a visit to Warren, Ohio. "I've been that way for 40 years. That's the secret to my success. I have thick skin. I don't care what people say...

What happens to cable news without a campaign?A

Chris Matthews refused to be drawn in to a debate last week when fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked on "Morning Joe" about whether President-elect Obama had fumbled the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief...

Fox News' Place In An Obama World

In the aftermath of Sen. Barack Obama's stirring victory over John McCain, there's been speculation about another potentially eye-opening event: the end of Fox News Channel's reign as the king of cable news.

CREDIT: Make a great first impression and earn more respect

"A man needs a firm grip, son." In hindsight, it was clearly a blunder to build our professional lives around Dad's handshake tip for making a good first impression. We probably should have expanded the old skill set a tad,...

Juicy Bits Surfacing in Rather Case: In 2004, CBS Considered Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Ann...

This week, Dan Rather's legal team submitted a memorandum to the judge overseeing Mr. Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers, which for the first time made public some of the thousands of documents that...

Democrats enjoy the spoils of war

H'w'd and D.C.: GOP ponders the events of the 2008 election -- Growing up as a UCLA fan in Los Angeles, one of my more perverse delights involved listening to arch-rival USC on those happy occasions when the Trojans were losing.

Has Drudge Jumped the Shark?

This political season (can you call something that's gone on for nearly two years a season?) has generated more interest than any other in my lifetime. Cable viewership is up and the political blogs and websites have seen their...

Zeal ebbing, Fox News' Hume ready to step down

With just a handful of days left in the 2008 presidential campaign, one would assume that Brit Hume, managing editor of Fox News' Washington bureau, would be preoccupied with voter turnout models and battleground state maps.

Networks asked not to call election

TV News: Lawmaker makes plea to execs for voter's sake -- A senior lawmaker is pressing the major television networks to refrain from calling the winner of the presidential election until all voting polls have closed Tuesday.