22. “Fox never went” Author interview with a senior Fox executive.
23. “Roger is very good” Author interview with a senior Fox producer.
24. In the newsroom Author interview with a senior Fox executive.
25. “You can’t say” Author interview with a former Fox executive.
26. Judy Laterza Author interviews with senior Fox employees.
27. “When Roger said something” Author interviews with sources familiar with the matter.
28. One producer joked Author interview with a former senior Fox producer.
29. Bill Shine Information on Shine is from author interviews with current and former Fox News employees.
30. “Call me” Author interview with a senior Fox producer.
31. As payback Author interview with a senior Fox employee.
32. Lewis had a nickname Ibid.
33. Like Fox’s prime-time stars John M. Higgins, “Shine Makes Fox News Glow,” Broadcasting & Cable, Dec. 5, 2004.
34. He was “a blue-collar” Author interview with a former senior Fox producer.
35. From his modest roots Author interview with a former senior Fox producer.
36. “We looked at them” Author interview with a former Fox employee.
37. “When Ashcroft was being confirmed” Author interview with former Fox News producer Adam Sank.
38. In October 2003 Tim Grieve, “Fox News: The Inside Story,” Salon.com, Oct. 31, 2003, http://www.salon.com/2003/10/31/fox_20/.
39. “People know who’s” Author interview with Bob Sellers.
40. “Watch out for” Author interview with former Fox producer Charles Reina.
41. Adam Sank remembered Author interview with Adam Sank.
42. “Look, I know everything” Author interview with a person familiar with the conversation.
43. One executive called it Author interview with a Fox executive.
44. “She had rules” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
45. “She had no” Author interview with a former senior Fox producer.
46. Brian Lewis’s department The descriptions of Fox’s media relations department are based on author interviews with current and former Fox News employees.
47. “He would call” Author interview with a senior Fox producer.
48. “Am I a Republican?” Author interview with Charles Reina.
49. At the Fox News Christmas party Dickinson, “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory”; author interview with Charles Reina.
50. As the administration Information in this paragraph is derived from author interviews with a senior Fox executive.
51. At the time Auletta, “Vox Fox.”
52. When the war Collins, Crazy Like a Fox, 189–90.
53. Shortly after receiving Author interviews with sources familiar with the matter.
54. “Fox approached news” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
55. “I need a better Muslim!” Author interview with a source who was present in the newsroom.
56. “You’re doing a service” Author interview with a senior Fox producer.
57. the United Nations See, e.g., John Gibson, “Is United Nations Irrelevant in Today’s World?,” The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Channel, Feb. 19, 2003.
58. France See, e.g., Neil Cavuto, “Stock Market Surges as U.N. Continues to Debate Potential Iraq War,” Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox News Channel, March 13, 2003.
59. Germany See, e.g., John Gibson, “Three NATO Members Veto Plan to Defend Turkey in Case of Iraq War,” The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Channel, Feb. 10, 2003.
60. Al Jazeera See, e.g., Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, analysis with Mansoor Ijaz, Nov. 12, 2002.
61. “If they’re going to get us” Michael Starr, “Geraldo’s Got a Gun … And Bin Laden in His Sights,” New York Post, Dec. 4, 2001.
62. In November 2001 Paula Bernstein, “Rivera Vaults to Fox News,” Daily Variety, Nov. 2, 2001.
63. “We walked over” Sridhar Pappu, “Being Geraldo,” Atlantic, June 2005.
64. A week later David Folkenflik, “War News from Rivera Seems off the Mark,” Baltimore Sun, Dec. 12, 2001.
65. He attributed the error Mark Jurkowitz, “Rivera’s Defense of His Shoddy Reporting Is Unconvincing,” Boston Globe, Dec. 4, 2002; Folkenflik, “War News from Rivera Seems off the Mark.”
66. “Have you ever been shot at?” Folkenflik, “War News from Rivera Seems off the Mark.”
67. When Dan Rather sat down Auletta, “Vox Fox.”
68. “Nowhere in the” Ibid.
69. “Americans and, indeed” Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, Feb. 26, 2003.
70. When antiwar protesters John M. Higgins, “Fox News Mocks Media Protesters,” Broadcasting & Cable, March 31, 2003.
71. Five days before James Deaville, “Selling War: Television News Music and the Shaping of American Public Opinion,” Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 8, no. 1 (Fall 2006), http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume8-Issue1/roundtable/deaville.html.
72. “The other networks” Peter Dobrin, “Media’s War Music Carries a Message,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 30, 2003.
73. After listening Deaville, “Selling War.”
74. In one, a fighter jet Deborah Lynn Jaramillo, Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), 156.
75. The script for a thirty-second Ibid., 181–82.
76. Anchor Bob Sellers Author interview with Bob Sellers.
77. On March 20 Jaramillo, Ugly War, Pretty Package, 113.
78. “The conservatives were not” Author interview with a former Bush administration official.
79. The New York Times’s Judith Miller See, e.g., the following articles written by Miller for the Times in the months prior to the commencement of war: “U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts” (with Michael R. Gordon, Sept. 8, 2002); “White House Lists Iraq Steps to Build Banned Weapons” (with Michael R. Gordon, Sept. 13, 2002); “Lab Suggests Qaeda Planned to Build Arms, Officials Say” (Sept. 14, 2002); “Defectors Bolster U.S. Case Against Iraq, Officials Say” (Jan. 24, 2003).
80. Both CNN and MSNBC Author interviews with executives from CNN and MSNBC.
81. In the summer of 2001 John Bresnahan and Mark Preston, “CNN Chief Courts GOP,” Roll Call, Aug. 6, 2001.