The old Fox News is gone

Roger Ailes built Fox News. In the wake of his death, America's No. 1 cable news network is becoming unrecognizable.

Outside the Fox News building in Manhattan.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Even before Roger Ailes died, the House That Ailes Built was falling into ruin.

It was an American twist on a tale familiar to readers of Evelyn Waugh — how the wreck of a great estate parallels the downfall of the man who tried to rebuild it. Except Ailes did not rebuild, he created. Fox News was his brainchild, a glimmer in his eye as far back as the days when he was a media consultant to Richard Nixon.

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Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is director of the Novak Journalism Fellowship Program at the Fund for American Studies, the editor of Modern Age, and a columnist at The Spectator. His freelance journalism has appeared in a variety of publications in the U.S. and internationally, including the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, The National Interest, and Reason.