Nine days after the September 11 attacks, Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes sent "an important-looking confidential communication" to President Bush, telling him he needed to convince America he was taking "the harshest measures possible" against terrorism or else the public would desert him, according to a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. Ailes denies giving political advice to Bush, but the issue is moot: Fox News Channel gives advice to everybody.
November 27, 2002 5:18 AM