Kingmaker no more
A media master disappears
“I WANT to elect the next president,” Roger Ailes once told staffers at Fox News. It was no idle ambition. Mr Ailes, the pre-eminent master of the dark arts of politics and television in America, had been helping Republicans get elected president since Richard Nixon. This week, with the Republican Party nominating another candidate he helped to create, the kingmaker himself is being dethroned. Rupert Murdoch and his sons Lachlan and James, who control 21st Century Fox, appear ready to oust the 76-year-old chief of Fox News after a career spanning more than 50 years.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Kingmaker no more”
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