54. Ailes envisioned Hume’s Sarah Goldstein, “The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis,” “The Q” (blog), GQ, Nov. 3, 2009, http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2009/11/the-wire-qa-ted-koppel-remembers-the-iran-hostage-crisis.html.
55. “We’re trying very hard” John Higgins and Donna Petrozzello, “Fox Chases the News,” Broadcasting & Cable, May 18, 1998.
56. “The Clinton administration—they hated us!” Marshall Sella, “The Red-State Network: How Fox News Conquered Bush Country—and Toppled CNN,” New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2001.
57. Launching Hume’s newscast “Around the Dial,” Boston Herald, Jan. 28, 1998.
58. “How did it happen?” Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Report, Fox News Channel, Oct. 7, 1996.
59. “Few broadcasts take any chances these days” Ibid.
60. His career began in Scranton “Bill O’Reilly’s Bio,” FoxNews.com, April 29, 2004, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html.
61. In 1982, he was called up to the Bigs Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up, 100, 102, 124.
62. “He would say” Author interview with journalist, producer, and television host Emily Rooney.
63. At six-four Nicholas Lemann, “Fear Factor: Bill O’Reilly’s Baroque Period,” New Yorker, March 27, 2006.
64. In one five-year period Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up, 102–22 passim.
65. “He was always in trouble” Ibid., 163.
66. In 1989, he bailed out Ibid., 135–36.
67. “I’m not sure” Neil Swidey, “The Meanest Man on Television,” Boston Globe, Dec. 1, 2002.
68. One evening he told Bill O’Reilly, “Two Year Anniversary Special,” The O’Reilly Report, Fox News Channel, Dec. 29, 1998
69. “It’s important if the president of the United States” Ibid.
70. “You guys wanted him out since Day One” Ibid.
71. O’Reilly once remarked Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up, 166.
72. “It was very basic” Ibid., 16.
73. At prep school Evan Thomas, “Life of O’Reilly,” Newsweek, Feb. 11, 2001.
74. At Marist College Kitman, The Man Who Would Not Shut Up, 33–42 passim.
75. “I could feel those rich girls” Thomas, “Life of O’Reilly.”
76. “Bill O’Reilly is one” Author interview with Robert Ailes.
77. Disgraced former Clinton adviser Richard L. Berke, “Call-Girl Story Costs President a Key Strategist,” New York Times, Aug. 30, 1996.
78. “What do you want me to say?” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
79. In March 1998 Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, March 11, 1999.
80. In April, Ailes hired David Bauder, “Dick Morris Joins Fox, Kinsley Back on CNN,” Associated Press, April 14, 1998.
81. Several weeks later Tim Goodman, “Fox News Hires Drudge—You Decide,” San Francisco Examiner, July 23, 1998.
82. “It’ll be me, a hat” Jennifer Weiner, “Foremost Internet Gossip Moves to TV,” Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1998.
83. “Raymond Chandler detective’s office” Ibid.
84. To complete the picture David Bauder, “Matt Drudge: Out from Behind the Laptop and onto TV,” Associated Press, June 25, 1998.
85. In July, Ailes hired Weiner, “Foremost Internet Gossip Moves to TV.”
86. The new lineup premiered “TV Ticker,” New York Post, July 27, 1998.
87. On the evening of August 17 Ted Koppel, “Bill Clinton Admits Affair,” Nightline, ABC, Aug. 17, 1998, http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/bill-clinton-lewinksy-affair-1998-9533796.
88. As Clinton’s presidency Josef Adalian and Richard Katz, “Presidents Day: Clinton Speech, TBS Pic Spike Cable Ratings,” Daily Variety, Aug. 19, 1998.
89. “It’s all popping” Matt Drudge, Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, Aug. 17, 1998.
90. “Which of the following” Fox News Sunday, Fox News Channel, Feb. 1, 1998.
91. “What is President Clinton more thankful for” Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Nov. 26, 1998.
92. In April 1998 Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, April 1, 1998.
93. In another report Rita Cosby, Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, March 10, 1998.
94. Some Fox viewers Joe Muto, An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media (New York: Dutton, 2013), 26.
95. David Shuster was no longer Author interview with David Shuster.
96. But Mort Kondracke Mort Kondracke, Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Sept. 4, 1998.
97. “There was initially” Author interview with former Fox producer and media consultant Steve Hirsh.
98. “We would hear” Author interview with David Shuster.
99. “I’m very interested in conflict resolution” Ed Bark, “Fox Joins the Hunt in TV News,” Dallas Morning News, Oct. 6, 1996.
100. “He had admiration” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
101. Crier found the Author interview with Catherine Crier.
102. An Irish Catholic Sean Hannity, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 47.
103. Radio personalities like Ibid.
104. He tried college three times Sean Hannity, Hannity, Fox News Channel, Oct. 4, 2013.
105. By the late 1980s Christopher H. Sterling, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio (New York: Routledge, 2011), 164.
106. In his spare time Ibid.
107. Though he was not a student Marta Ulveaus, “Revisiting Sean Hannity: Audio/Podcast from KCSB’s ’50 Years of People Powered Radio,’ ” KCSB.org, Dec. 22, 2011, http://www.kcsb.org/blog/2011/12/22/revisiting-sean-hannity-audiopodcast/ (mp3 audio of the retrospective radio broadcast).
108. In April 1989 Ibid.
109. A Lutheran minister Jean Latz Griffin, “McHenry Coroner’s AIDS Warning Ripped,” Chicago Tribune, March 13, 1987.
110. He wrote that See Gene Antonio, The AIDS Cover-Up?: The Real and Alarming Facts About AIDS (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986), 71, 113.
111. At the opening of The complete archived audio of Sean Hannity’s interview with Gene Antonio can be found at http://www.kcsb.org/blog/2011/12/22/revisiting-sean-hannity-audiopodcast/.