Mediagazer: Is there anyone with the same power and visibility who flat out makes stuff up like Roger Ailes? (Jay Rosen/Quote and Comment)

4:05 PM ET, November 16, 2012

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Is there anyone with the same power and visibility who flat out makes stuff up like Roger Ailes? — I don't think there is. (See this one, for example. Or this.) Here's what he said the other day to TVNewser's Chris Ariens: … As soon as I read that quote, I knew it was wrong.

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