Left-Wing Columnist and Professor Eric Alterman Attacks Roger Ailes

The Nation has Eric Alterman's new column attacking Roger Ailes:

The genius of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch in the creation of Fox News has two primary components. The first is financial: it doesn’t take that many disaffected, ill-informed, angry old white guys who couldn’t care less that they’re being lied to to make a cable-news network profitable, but apparently there’s enough of them to make Fox News about $1 billion a year. The second is political: by posing as a ref while actually being a player, Fox manages to corrupt the entire political playing field. What was once considered a “fact”—such as the near-airtight scientific consensus on the reality of man-made global warming, or the birthplace of the current president of the United States—becomes merely one pole in an endless “debate” in which actual evidence carries the same weight as total bullshit. You can see the results in the actions and arguments of today’s Republican Party—and, with it, America’s apparently limitless political dysfunction.

Eric Alterman is one angry leftist here. Is Eric Alterman upset that Fox News is adding diversity in the media? Not every workplace can have the intellectual unity of tenured Marxists on campus. The "scientific consensus" Alterman mentions ,isn't looking too good on global warming this winter as you may have noticed. No word on whether Eric Alterman's financial angels approved of this particular column . Is Eric Alterman (Democrat-Wal Mart and Goldman Sachs)? At least NBC Universal's Center For American Progress' "contribution" is getting something from Eric Alterman's attack on Fox's Roger Ailes. Where would crony capitalists be without Eric Alterman doing their bidding? We are sure Goldman Sachs and gang appreciates that the Center For American Progress types are for bailouts and a cartelized banking system.