Roger Ailes obituary

Roger Ailes, who has died aged 77, was arguably the most important shaper of American politics of the past half-century.Ailes then used his political savvy to build the Fox News Channel into a kingmaking force, generating huge profits for Fox television and shifting the entire template of television journalism.The man who once told Richard Nixon, “This is not a press conference, it’s a television show,” set the stage for Donald Trump, who absorbed Ailes’ message and appro