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Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani's 1989 New York City mayoral election. In July 2016, he left Fox News after allegations of sexually harass…
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business · American TV executive and consultant (1940–2017) · politician · businessperson · television producer · media consultant · also Roger Ailes, Roger Eugene Ailes, Ailes
Born 15 May 1940 · Died 18 May 2017 · Q983981
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2026· 2 entries
“I will not allow my presence to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day to ensure that Fox News and Fox Business continue to lead our industry.”
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2020· 1 entry
Yahoo: Fox News Founder Roger Ailes Gets Sympathetic Documentary Narrated by Jon Voight (Video)
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2019· 2 entries
Bustle: Laurie Luhn's Allegations Against Roger Ailes Are Front & Center In 'The Loudest Voice'
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Russell Crowe portrayed Roger Ailes in Showtime's limited series The Loudest Voice alongside Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson
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2018· 1 entry
Ailes briefly appears in the Adam McKay film Vice
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2017· 5 entries
Yahoo Finance: Roger Ailes, Fox News Founder, Dies at 77
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Digital Journal: Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes dies at age 77
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At the age of 77 after a subdural hematoma that was aggravated by his hemophilia
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Died 2017-05-18.
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Ailes fell and hit his head at his Palm Beach, Florida, home
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2016· 7 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes said that 'the truth is whatever people will believe.'” False.
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Shelley Ross, writing for The Daily Beast, described her encounter of sexual harassment with Ailes in 1981
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Entertainment Tonight: Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Network Amid Gretchen Carlson Lawsuit
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Ailes resigned from Fox News, receiving about $40 million (~$53
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Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes; Carlson's allegations were the impetus for more than a dozen female employees at 21st Century Fox to step forward regarding their o
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When Gretchen Carlson first made her sexual harassment allegations, 21st Century Fox pressured Kelly to defend Ailes, which she refused to do
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After he left Fox News, he became an adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation
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2014· 1 entry
Gabriel Sherman alleged that, in the 1980s, Ailes offered a television producer a raise if she would sleep with him
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2011· 1 entry
Ailes was criticized for referring to executives of the public radio network NPR as "Nazis" for firing a news analyst, Juan Williams, after Williams had made remarks considered by NPR to be offensive
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2006· 1 entry
Kelly says that Ailes did not sexually harass her again
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1996· 2 entries
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1996–2016).
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To become the CEO of Fox News, effective on October 7
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1995· 1 entry
NBC hired a law firm to conduct an internal investigation after Ailes allegedly called NBC executive David Zaslav a "little fucking Jew prick
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1994· 1 entry
Funded scholarships for Ohio University students in the school's telecommunications programs
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1993· 1 entry
Became president of CNBC and later created the America's Talking channel, which would eventually become MSNBC
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1989· 1 entry
Ailes wrote a book with Jon Kraushar entitled You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are
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1988· 1 entry
Ailes wrote a book with long-time aide Jon Kraushar entitled You Are the Message: Secrets of the Master Communicators
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1987· 1 entry
And 1988, Ailes was credited (along with fellow consultant Lee Atwater) with guiding George H
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1984· 1 entry
Ailes worked on the campaign to reelect Ronald Reagan
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1980· 1 entry
After meeting while working together on the Mike Douglas Show
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1967· 1 entry
Ailes had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show's guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick
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1962· 1 entry
Ailes graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he majored in radio and television and served as the student station manager for WOUB for two years
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-05-15.
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