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Тоби Смит много лет подвизался на Fox News в качестве платного комментатора и был уволен в 2013. Недавно, после смерти Роджера Эйлса, он поделился занятными воспоминаниями о разговорах с Эйлсом и о том, как Fox News организовывало подставные дебаты:
“What does our viewer look like?
“They look like me…white guys in mostly Red State counties who sit on their couch with the remote in their hand all day and night.”
“What do they want to see”
“They want to see YOU tear those smug condescending know-it-all East Coast liberals to pieces . . limb by limb . . . until they jump up out of their LaZ boy and scream “Way to go Toby…you KILLED that libtard!”
https://medium.com/@tobinsmith_95851/how-roger-ailes-fox-news-scammed-americas-la-z-boy-cowboys-for-21-years-1996ee4a6b3e
Неизвестно, насколько сильны были консервативные убеждения Роджера Эйлса, но он несомненно был циником, который хорошо понимал, как работает телевидение и как подсадить на свой канал целевую аудиторию, чтобы максимизировать прибыль от рекламы. Из той же заметки:
Key Point: the viewer’s rage set their brain’s pleasure giving dopamine delivery system into high gear . . .and when their fellow conservative protagonist tribal hero (aka me the hitman) turned the liberal’s own words against them and vanquished the sniveling apostate into living hell on live TV…WOW…the pleasure chemical rushed through the Fox viewer's brain like a deep hit of crack cocaine (btw its the dopamine system in the brain that cocaine stimulates and makes it so addictive).

Рэйчел Мэддоу, которая окучивает либеральную аудиторию, в том числе успешным освоением Рашагейта, неизменно отзывалась об Эйлсе с уважением, отдавая должное его профессионализму. Он платил ей взаимностью:
Among your competitors, is there any talent you particularly admire?
I think Rachel Maddow has been a surprise to a lot of people. She wouldn't really work at this network because she wouldn't even come in the door, but on a personal level, I like her. I don't want to hurt her career, so I won't say we get along, but I've had dialogue with her, and she's very smart. She has adapted well to the television medium.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roger-ailes-fights-back-cnn-668765
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