Fox News' 'revealing' 'course correction': 6 talking points

Roger Ailes wants his network to tack closer to the political center and be less inflammatory, reports Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. Skepticism abounds

Fox News chief Roger Ailes is reportedly urging employees of his cable news network to subtly tone down their conservative sympathies, says Howard Kurtz in Newsweek.
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In the latest Newsweek, media reporter Howard Kurtz gives us a "revealing" look at Fox News chief Roger Ailes, charting what Ailes calls the network's quiet, months-long "course correction" from its recent hard-right conservatism toward a more broadly appealing — and thus more lucrative — center-right posture. Of course, Fox News risks "alienating its most rabid right-wing fans," says Kurtz, but Ailes is spending his last few years at the network "acting not like a political operative but as a corporate chieftain," putting the bottom line first. Here, six takeaways from Kurtz's "glowing" profile of Ailes:

1. Ailes is edging Fox "back toward the mainstream"

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