HEARTBREAKING NEWS – A FALL Leads to the PASS1NG of a Fox News F!gure.
Roger Ailes, the media mastermind who changed U.S. television news and shaped political conversation for two decades with Fox News, has died at age 77. His wife, Elizabeth Ailes, said he passed away after a fall in his bathroom at their Palm Beach home, which caused bleeding in the brain.
Born in Ohio, Ailes battled hemophilia and grew up glued to TV screens—later turning them into a source of power. He was an advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and briefly to Donald Tr::u::mp. Known for being brash, confrontational, and defiant, he famously said at the launch of Fox News with Rupert Murdoch in 1996: “Will we be criticized? Hell, yes. Do I care? Hell, no!”
Under his leadership, Fox News quickly overtook competitors like CNN, boosted by hosts like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Hannity tweeted: “He dramatically changed the media and politics forever.” Murdoch called him a “brilliant broadcaster and great patriot.”
But in 2016, Ailes’ empire collapsed within weeks after former host Gretchen Carlson accused him of s3xual misc0nduct, leading over 20 women to share similar claims. Although Megyn Kelly stayed silent, the scandal forced Murdoch and his sons to remove Ailes just as Trump was nominated.
Earlier, Ailes faced criticism for controversial campaign ads, like the rac1ally charg3d Willie Horton ad in 1988. Still, he insisted: “I only did what it took to win.”
Ailes leaves behind a Fox News once seen as his empire, and a legacy marked by genius, power, controversy, and scandal.
