Despite the author receiving “considerable access to Mr. Ailes and Fox News,” Times assassin Michiko Kakutani calls Zev Chafets’s new valentine to the cable news virtuoso a “slapdash … familiar … oddly defensive … long, soft-focus, poorly edited magazine article” that “doesn’t ask … many tough questions” and “serves as little more than a plastic funnel for Mr. Ailes’s observations,” with “a tiny bit of context here and there,” but “little cogent analysis.”
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