The founder of Fox News died at the age of 77 years
Roger Ails, a pompous and controversial founder and CEO Fox Newswho was fired last year due to allegations of sexual harassment, has passed away.
Ailsu, who transformed television news for 5 decades in the television and entertainment industry, was 77. On the death of her husband wrote his wife Elizabeth Ails.
Breaking News: His family has announced. pic.twitter.com/AksPdNSZaI
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“I am deeply saddened and heartbroken to announce that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning,” she wrote. She called him a "loving husband" and a "patriot."
In a series of posts Fox News Sean Hanniti tweeted the former boss, saying he was "like a second father."
“America lost one of its great patriotic warriors today,” Hannity tweeted. =He radically and forever changed the political and media landscape, single-handedly, for the better.”
The cause of death is not yet clear.
Ails who ruled Fox News with his “iron hand”, July 21 resigned after a lawsuit about sexual harassment, which filed Gretchen Carlson. This lawsuit caused similar claims in other women, after which an internal investigation began in the company. Fox.
Ails didn’t confess to the charges, but he conceded and left the company with a severance package of $ 40 million.
Gabriel Sherman, who wrote Eil’s biography, entitled “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” called his “last chapter” a tragic story: “whatever you think of Roger Eyles.”
“This is a tragic, sad morning,” Sherman said on MSNBC on Thursday. “After everything he built in his career, he died alone.”
Ails began his television career at the beginning of 1960's as a producer on Mike Douglas Show in Cleveland and became a media consultant for several Republican presidents, including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
In 1970, as an assistant to Nixon, he wrote an 300-page note called “The Republican Party posting on television news”, which talked about how to use the conservative media view on behalf of the party. Although the Republican president never considered this idea, it was the germination of the concept that turned into a channel Fox News, a conservative broadcasting station that debuted on October 7 1996 of the year.
With high technological values of production and bold slogans "We inform, you decide", Fox News quickly challenged what Ayles considered a liberal media environment.
The formula shook the American news industry and changed American politics. The channel eventually became one of the most popular cable networks of all genres, covering more than 90 millions of families.
Ails formed a network that worked as a political campaign, with prime time shows that were shamelessly conservative, who openly supported Republican sentiment. He did Fox News A convenient place for Republican leaders to offer a soft aerial landing for politicians such as Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabi, John Kasich, Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum.
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