Comment by raisedbyninjas
2 hours ago
The system also learned to stop pressuring Republicans to resign in shame. Roger Ailes was a media consultant and advisor to Nixon. Ailes vision of a TV network that pushed a pro-GOP administration message under the banner of unbiased journalism manifested in Television News Incorporated and later Fox News. He viewed television as a useful tool to reach the lazy masses who preferred not to read the news or perform their own critical thinking.
IIRC Ailes believed that if the had some of the press with them that Nixon could have survived Watergate.
And now we get near-daily “worse than Watergate” headlines and facts…