>I haven't read it, don't know anything about the sources, just thought the title of the article was worthy of sharing with everyone.
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>Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers.
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>http://gawker.com/5814150/

No surprise there. Fox News has never tried to disguise its POV. Which is their right. As it is my right to consider them big fat pooh pooh potty pants ;-)