The Fox Effect

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 29, 2012

David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt of Media Matters for America, look at how Fox News president Roger Ailes has transformed the network. Their book The Fox Effect follows Ailes’ career as a media consultant for Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush to in his current position and his mission, which they say is to spread a partisan political agenda despite the widely held standards of objectivity in news reporting.

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