People We Have the Coorses To Thank For

Added on by C. Maoxian.

From Dan Baum’s interview on Booknotes:

“[Joe Coors] also started a television network way before its time. I mean, what he did, he started a news operation to deliver to television stations film reels--in those days film reels--of premade news stories to air all with a conservative bent. It failed; he spent a lot of money on it. It failed for a lot of reasons but it was a visionary thing to do … [the man he hired to run his news operation was Roger Ailes.]“