Roger Ailes

Whatever you make of his politics, I find it impossible to ignore how thoroughly Roger Ailes rewrote the grammar of American television news. A small-town kid from Warren, Ohio, he went from advising Nixon, Reagan, and the elder Bush to building Fox News into a cultural juggernaut. What fascinates me is his instinct for emotion over information; he understood, earlier than almost anyone, that pictures shape opinion. His later years were stained by serious scandal, and I do not wave that away. But as a study in raw media power, Ailes remains one of the most consequential figures of his era.

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Name (English)

Roger Ailes

Name (Japanese)

ロジャー・エールス

Reading

ろじゃー・えーるす

Born

May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017

Origin

Warren, Ohio, United States

Occupation

politician / businessperson / television producer / media consultant

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

High school

Warren G. Harding High School

University

Ohio University

Awards & achievements

• Horatio Alger Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Ailes
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983981

Tags

• Ohio
• politician
• businessperson
• television producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.