Times’ Carr takes on Fox News PR
Fox News’ PR operation took a beating in today’s New York Times by David Carr, who alleges that media relations at the network is “a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them.”
Carr reports that the strategy is born from CEO Roger Ailes’ days as a political adviser for presidents Nixon, Reagan, and George HW Bush. Says Carr: “Once the [PR] apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.” Read more »