MSNBC’s Griffin Calls FNC’s Ailes ‘Brilliant’

By Andrew Gauthier 

Chicago Tribune

MSNBC boss Phil Griffin looks at what Roger Ailes created at Fox News Channel with no small amount of awe.

“He’s changed media. Everybody does news differently because Roger’s changed the world,” Griffin said over coffee on a visit to Chicago the other day. He was taking a break from making a case for his own cable network to ad buyers here to make the case for changes in the media landscape to a reporter. “Roger early on figured it out and was brilliant.”

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