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Nixon files: Roger Ailes plotted Fox GOP TV for lazy people

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The birth of the Fox "News" Network has been revealed in files from the Nixon library. Nixon’s media strategist, Roger Ailes, put it succinctly in the planning stages of what would later be called ‘The Fair and Balanced News Network."

"People are lazy, with Television you just sit, watch, listen, and thinking is done for you."