Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes has weighed in on the talk of toning down political rhetoric in the wake of the tragedy in Tucson.
Ailes spoke to hip hop legend Russell Simmons (!!) for the blog GlobalGrind.com.
“I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually,” Ailes told Simmons. ” You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.
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Fox News CEO Roger Ailes says he put the word out at Fox to "tone it down" and make arguments "intellectually" with less heated rhetoric. "You don't have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that." But Ailes draws the l... Read Post
As we found at earlier this year, hip hop mogul Russell Simmons is a complex man. He is an unabashed progressive, but he also counts Fox News CEO Roger Ailes as a friend (See Simmons talk about Ailes here). In a blog on The Huffingt... Read Post
Earlier this week Russell Simmons talked with Fox News chairman and co-founder Roger Ailes on Simmons’ GlobalGrind.com. The two talked about the shootings in Arizona and about whether heightened rhetoric from the media — including h... Read Post