23. MSNBC had recently hired Doug Nye, “Larry, Curly and Moe: ‘Moidering the Competition for a Long Time,’ ” Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 9, 1996.
24. “Well I know your background” Lawrie Mifflin, “Media: Broadcasting; At the New Fox News Channel, the Buzzword Is Fairness, Separating News from Bias,” New York Times, Oct. 7, 1996. The dialogue between Kennedy and Ailes was recounted by Ailes to Mifflin.
25. Ailes and Chet Collier questioned Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
26. Bob Reichblum See résumé at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-reichblum/0/788/880.
27. Collier was a Massachusetts liberal Author interview with a former Fox News staffer. See also Richard Goldstein, “Chester Collier, 80, Dies; Led Westminster Show,” New York Times, Aug. 29, 2007.
28. “Chet’s idea” Author interview with a former CNBC executive.
29. The trade journal Dog News Chester F. Collier (paid obituary), New York Times, Aug. 19, 2007.
30. Throughout the spring and summer Author interview with a former Fox News executive.
31. “I’m not hiring talent” Author interview with a former Fox News executive. See also Brock, “Roger Ailes Is Mad as Hell.” 191 $1 million line item Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
32. “I didn’t understand” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
33. “Viewers don’t want” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
34. “He hated anything” Author interview with a former Fox News executive.
35. Collier regularly rebuked Author interview with Emily Rooney. See also Swint, Dark Genius, 164.
36. “Chet told me” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
37. John Moody Suzan Revah, American Journalism Review, May 1996.
38. He had spent a decade See John Moody résumé at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-moody/10/ba2/729.
39. a Cold War thriller John Moody, Moscow Magician (New York: St. Martin’s, 1991).
40. A “first-class journalist” Author interviews with two former Time staffers who worked with Moody.
41. “There are a lot” Author interview with former Time assistant managing editor Janice Simpson.
42. One of the problems Collins, Crazy Like a Fox, 73.
43. Speaking with a reporter Mifflin, “At the New Fox News Channel, the Buzzword Is Fairness, Separating News from Bias.”
44. As they spoke Sella, “The Red-State Network.”
45. “When he first came in” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
46. Emily Rooney could not believe Author interview with Emily Rooney.
47. “Collier hated Moody” Author interview with a former Fox News executive.
48. Moody “hated” Collier’s talk show concepts Author interview with a Fox News founding producer.
49. In meetings, Ailes spoke Author interviews with Fox News executives.
50. “He made sure” Author interview with a person close to Ailes.
51. “So much of the success” Author interview with a former senior Fox executive.
52. Murdoch invested Stephen Battaglio, “Long, Busy Day Planned for Fox News Channel,” Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 5, 1996.
53. A stable of twenty John Carmody, “The TV Column,” Washington Post, Sept. 5, 1996.
54. Louis Aguirre See biographical note at http://www.wsvn.com/newsteam/?id=DBM430.
55. Jon Scott See biographical note at http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/jon-scott/bio/.
56. Shepard Smith “Entertainment Briefs,” BPI Entertainment News Wire, Aug. 24, 1999.
57. Wendell Goler Carmody, “The TV Column,” Sept. 5, 1996.
58. Camera crews Jon Lafayette, “ ‘Fairness’ Will Set Fox News Apart,” Electronic Media, Sept. 9, 1996.
59. In addition, the network Ibid. See also Warren’s Cable Regulation Monitor, Oct. 7, 1996.
60. Neil Cavuto Carmody, “The TV Column,” Sept. 5, 1996. Many of the details in this paragraph about the prime-time lineup came from Carmody’s article.
61. provisionally titled Ibid.
62. The weeknight slate Gary Levin, “Fox News Channel Sets Slate,” Daily Variety, Sept. 11, 1996.
63. Starting at 10:00 p.m. Ibid.
64. Weekend coverage Battaglio, “Long, Busy Day Planned for Fox News Channel.”
65. “He had been in the business” Marvin Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O’Reilly (New York: St. Martin’s, 2007), 163.
66. Schneider, probably the biggest name Author interview with Mike Schneider.
67. At a press conference Lafayette, “ ‘Fairness’ Will Set Fox News Apart.”
68. “There isn’t a shred” Michael Burgi, “Not Banking on Anchors,” Mediaweek, Sept. 16, 1996.
69. “most television people are idiots” Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up, 6.
70. He knew viewers made Ailes and Kraushar, You Are the Message, 3.
71. “If I have any ability” Collins, Crazy Like a Fox, 140.
72. “None of us were news people” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
73. Sharri Berg Tom Junod, “Because They Hate Him and Want Him to Fail,” Esquire, March 1, 2009.
74. Janet Alshouse Martin C. Evans, “Exec Switching Channel,” Newsday (New York), Aug. 17, 1996.
75. Bill Shine “Fox News Channel Names Bill Shine Senior Vice President of Programming,” Business Wire, Jan. 13, 2005.
76. “I was not a fan” Author interview with former Fox News staffer Jordan Kurzweil.
77. “This was not the A-team” Author interview with a former Fox News producer.
78. Catherine Crier Author interview with former Fox News anchor Catherine Crier.
79. “We became the enemy” Author interview with Emily Rooney.
80. “It became very clear” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
81. “Joe had an open-door policy” Author interview with former Fox News accountant Jay Ringelstein.
82. “At most organizations” Author interview with a former News Corp executive.
83. Once at a News Corp seminar Neil, “Murdoch and Me.”
84. “If you’re good” David Lieberman, “Ailes Tackles Toughest Assignment: Cable Channel Battles Budget, Clock, Rivals,” USA Today, Sept. 23, 1996.
85. At a September 4 news conference Frazier Moore, “Fox News Channeclass="underline" More Round-the-Clock News a Month Away,” Associated Press, Sept. 4, 1996. See also Robin Dougherty, “Fox News Chairman: Cable Service Shooting for ‘Balanced’ Coverage,” Miami Herald, Sept. 5, 1996; Gary Levin, “Fox News Channel Sets Slate,” Variety, Sept. 9–Sept. 15, 1996; and Lafayette, “ ‘Fairness’ Will Set Fox News Apart.”