Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes has died.  Ailes’s gifts to the American public included Richard Nixon’s presidency and Fox News: indeed it’s fair to say that the ascension of Donald Trump was the culmination of his life’s work.   In addition to his polluting of public life with a constant stream of right wing propaganda in the guise of legitimate journalism, Ailes was a serial sexual harasser of his employees.

And although de mortuis nil nisi bonum be a maxim of our profession, feel free to make an exception in this case.