Journalism Quotes by Roger Ailes

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

— Roger Ailes

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

— Roger Ailes

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

— Roger Ailes

I believe business news is general news.

— Roger Ailes

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

— Roger Ailes

I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.

— Roger Ailes

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

— Roger Ailes

There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.

— Roger Ailes

Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.

— Roger Ailes

I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American…

— Roger Ailes

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint,…

— Roger Ailes

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a…

— Roger Ailes

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most…

— Roger Ailes

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

— Roger Ailes

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process…

— Roger Ailes

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

— Roger Ailes

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at…

— Roger Ailes

Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a…

— Roger Ailes

Just because someone thinks he is being attacked by the media doesn't mean he is. Many times the media actually is being…

— Roger Ailes

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in…

— Roger Ailes

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why…

— Roger Ailes

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

— Roger Ailes

Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance.

— Roger Ailes

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

— Roger Ailes

Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.

— Roger Ailes

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

— Roger Ailes

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

— Roger Ailes

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are…

— Roger Ailes

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity,…

— Roger Ailes

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

— Roger Ailes