[raisedbyninjas]

The system also learned to stop pressuring Republicans to resign in shame. Roger Ailes was a media consultant and advisor to Nixon. Ailes vision of a TV network that pushed a pro-GOP administration message under the banner of unbiased journalism manifested in Television News Incorporated and later Fox News. He viewed television as a useful tool to reach the lazy masses who preferred not to read the news or perform their own critical thinking.

[bonesss]

IIRC Ailes believed that if the had some of the press with them that Nixon could have survived Watergate.

And now we get near-daily “worse than Watergate” headlines and facts…