Before he was booted for continual sexual harassment,

basically telling young interns they needed to trade sex with the fat, dirty old man for their jobs, Roger Ailes was a political propaganda whiz, as he led the campaigns for Nixon and GHW Bush
He and the Pub party decided, however, that they could catapult the propaganda even MORE effectively if they could CREATE their own alternative to the 'news'. Basically broadcasting what they WANTED to be true, and convincing the low information sheep that they alone told the truth, while ALL the other media lied.
Seems too far fetched to believe it could happen, BUT, like PT Barnum said, 'Never underestimate the stupidity of the average person', AND, 'There's a sucker born every minute'.
With a little over a hundred mil from Rupert Murdoch, PARP, or the Propaganda Arm of the Repub Party was launched, and the rest is history.
Every day, the sheep line up to see and hear what the Pub party wants them to believe. The sheer number of easily provable LIES is off the chart, but that doesn't bother the denizens of Bullshit Mountain' They know where to go to hear what they wanna hear, after being 'programmed' for years. Facts be damned.
DEMS BAD---PUBS GOOD is drilled into their pea-sized brains 24/7.
After 8 years of Pub reign of error and the 'Oooops, No WMD's', multi-trillion dollar fiasco that unleashed the 'still ongoing' hounds of hell in the MidEast, followed by the worst recession since the Big D, you'd think the sheep would learn.
HELL NO!
They rejected Hillary cuz of all her 'lies' (R) (BENGHAZI!) and a 'private server' that was never compromised, and gave us, thanks to FOX, the biggest LIAR in the history of US politics, who was elected thanks to (according to all 17 US intel agencies) Russian interference in the election.
Ailes will forever be known as recognizing the biggest voting bloc in the US, which is Bible Belt Evangelicals who believe in a literal Bible, and in Repub bullshit promises.
A tip o' the hat to Roger Ailes, who created the biggest boondoggle in the history of the media. FOXNews, where the sheep go for their daily ration of Dems Bad, Pubs Good, and BE SURE TO VOTE REPUBLICAN, no matter HOW BAD they hurt you last time.
I hope there's a special place in hell for the dirty old man, who did more to wreck our country than any individual I can think of.