FNC At 10: Q&A With Rupert & Roger

By Brian 

This Financial Times Q&A with Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch is a must must read. Highlights from Ailes:

> “We are expanding our international cover because 9/11 changed the world and we have got to do more on international.”

> “It’s just a matter of probably hiring more reporters or having more reporters available, particularly in the Pacific Rim, we use a lot of freelancers. We have done very well with them.”

> “The American broad audience has not demonstrated a great curiosity about foreign news. The driving force today is probably terrorism, although I would argue that trade and an awakening to the rest of the world is going on in America, so we have to find a way to make it interesting to the American audience and we are not going to ignore America.”

> “We got into radio as a promotion device for Fox News Channel, and it is generating great revenues. No part of Fox News is in the red. Some have relatively low revenues like our website and mobile.”

Here’s the full Q&A…

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