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Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes dies at age 77

written by Taiwo Adediran May 18, 2017
Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes dies at age 77

Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a powerful cable giant that transformed both American television and politics, has died at the age of 77, the network announced Thursday.

The Fox co-founder, a consultant to Republican presidents widely credited with leading a revival of the US conservative movement, was ousted from the network last year under the cloud of a series of sexual harassment allegations.

Roger Ailes speaking onstage during the 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour for the FOX Broadcasting Company at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California. / AFP PHOTO / Getty Images North America / FREDERICK M. BROWN

The cable network’s hosts struggled to hold back tears as they read a statement from Ailes’ wife Elizabeth announcing his death.

A longtime confident of media titan Rupert Murdoch, Ailes was seen as a central figure in the conservative US political movement, who stood down at Fox in July last year after a sexual harassment lawsuit from former news host Gretchen Carlson.

His wife’s statement, first published on the conservative Drudge Report, said: “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning.”

Ailes, she said, “was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise — and to give back.”

There was no immediate indication of the cause of death.

Under the leadership of Ailes, Fox became America’s most widely watched cable news channel, home to key conservative political commentators and drawing an audience distinct from rivals CNN and MSNBC.

“Today America lost one of its great patriotic warriors,” said Fox News host Sean Hannity, in a tribute to his friend and mentor read out on air.

“Few people in this life will ever reach for the profound level of impact that Roger Ailes had on the country,” Hannity said. “As his opponents played checkers in life Roger was always the strategist, playing chess five steps ahead at another level.”

 

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