“Fox was Romney’s War Room”; GOP being run by Fox News: Zucker & Gabriel Agree

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http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/romneys-zucker-gabriel.html

“Fox was Romney’s War Room”; GOP being run by Fox News: Zucker & Gabriel Agree
By Juan Cole | Jan. 14, 2014

The new head of CNN, Jeff Zucker, replied to Fox News’ Roger Ailes obituary for CNN by alleging that the Republican Party is being run out of Fox. Then Sherman Gabriel, author of a new biography of Ailes, weighed in, saying that Fox was the “War Room” of the 2012 Romeney campaign. Ailes decided, he said, to use the network to do negative campaigning against Obama because he couldn’t trust Romney to “rip his face off.”

First, a Raw Story report, and below is the Gabriel interview with Piers Morgan:

Jeff Zucker, CNN’s current president, said on Friday that the Republican Party is being run by Fox News and that networks like Fox are just telling people what they want to hear “and missing the story.” According to Mediaite, Zucker was speaking…

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1. Great work by Juan Cole, as usual. n/t