Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News
Republican strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But his efforts to create a partisan conservative network date back three decades. [Gawker] http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news
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The Devil Didn’t Invent the Fork
A silverware spoiler: People used to hate the fork. When first introduced in Italy, and then in France and England, it did not go over well. And we’re not talking about the kind of eh, I’m-not-going-to-use-that-weird-thing kind of dislike; we’re talking straight TOOL OF THE DEVIL abhorrence. The whole history of the fork started off…