This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Roger Ailes, the most influential broadcaster in the nation.

In 1996, when CNN still utterly dominated cable news, Ailes joined Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation — and launched Fox News. Today? “Fox News,” as the New York Times recently reported, “is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC, and CBS combined.” On the night Scott Brown won the special election in Massachusetts, Fox News attracted over 6 million viewers, more than twice as many as CNN and MSNBC combined.

How has Ailes done it?

I recognized that the American people did not want to be told what to think about the information they were receiving. . . . We just want a dialogue, and we believe the ideas and the issues will sort themselves out.

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