NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Ailes is out as chief executive at Fox News Channel, his career at the network he built from scratch and ran with an iron hand for nearly 20 years over with stunning swiftness following allegations that he forced out a former anchor after she spurned his sexual advances.
Network parent 21st Century Fox said Thursday that Rupert Murdoch, the company's executive chairman, would run Fox News and its sister Fox Business Network, which Ailes had also led, until a successor could be found.
For a generation predisposed to accept the merits of the idea of Progress (with a Roman P), world events have a proved a dispiriting, and truth be told, denigrating illustration of that theory's delusional ambitions.
Against the backdrop of international terrorism, increasing domestic discord, and the collapse of objective standards of societal behavior, the apologists of Progress can point to no fixed law of social advancement by which our conditions perpetually improve. Rather, they stare upon vistas of dead bodies, objectified human persons, widespread social boredom, and rampant self-indulgence. Progress is a failed god, and in its wake, it leaves a trail of blood and a sea of tears.
