Matt Drudge has a link to the Wall Street Journal interview with Fox honcho Roger Ailes, who is overseeing the launch of Fox Business Network, a cable channel that hopes to give CNBC some needed competition. Part of the interview:
WSJ: Are you a hands-on manager?
Mr. Ailes: I have a working knowledge of all the areas. I have probably 14 vice presidents who report to me. I have to know enough about each of their areas to know how to ask the proper questions….I think what I bring to it is life experience. People say, “How can you? You didn’t go to Columbia Journalism School, how can you run a news organization?” I say, “I have two qualifications: One, I didn’t go to Columbia Journalism School, so there’s a chance I’ll be fair, and, two, I never want to go to a party in this town, so there’s nobody’s a- I have to kiss.”
OUCH! There is nothing that elites hate more than being snubbed by their betters.
The interview is here.
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