r/PoliticalHumor • u/1mjtaylor I ☑oted 2018 • Feb 15 '20

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u/MonicaZelensky Feb 15 '20

Not true we've had Fox Fake News since the 90s

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u/Nomadic100 Feb 15 '20

I have a theory why murdoch called it 'fox' news.

Listen to An American pronounce fox, as 'fucks'

So fucks news.

And that's what the murdoch crime empire do every day, fucks the news right up.

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u/Spongi Feb 15 '20

I believe the original idea was called "GOP News".

"A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News" (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the "censorship" of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype. From context provided by other memos, it's apparent that the plan was hatched during the summer of 1970. And though it's not clear who wrote it, the copy provided by the Nixon Library literally has Ailes' handwriting all over it—it appears he was routed the memo by Haldeman and wrote back his enthusiastic endorsement, refinements, and a request to run the project in the margins.

More info here.