"Part of a history quiz imagined by Roger Ailes from a 1971 thesis entitled ""Candidate + Money + Media = Votes"" from a dump of Nixon era documents unveiled by Gawker in Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News. Just before this, we have Ailes explaining:  The biggest problem today, I believe, is communication on all levels. Before print and before radio and television there was some excuse for this failure. Today there is none. And the self-perpetuating symptom of this disease is a completely negative attitude about ourselves and our system. America has a cancer. Cancer is usually fatal, but it doesn't have to be if it is discovered and treated in time. Well gentlemen, we as a nation have it, we have positively identified it. There may be time, but our national life depends on our ability to use our technical knowledge to cure the ills of the country and upon our refusal to be caught up in this negative attitude about our system. In other words it must exhibit and communicate an unbending will to live. Without these things America will be nothing more than a history lesson in a student-run college of the twenty-first century.  Emphasis mine. If the constellation of evidence pointing to Fox news as a vanguard of GOP propaganda isn't already clear, these early remarks appear to demonstrate a near evangelical verve ""to translate the ideals"" in combat with, as Agnew put it, the ""nattering nabobs of negativism"" and the ""effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals"". The only thing that separates Ailes from the Diana Christensen in Network is that he believes in something. - CZ"
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