Ailes was the perfect hire for TVN: he knew propaganda and had studied the dramatic camera angles and the use of chiaroscuro and music that the Hitler propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl used in the masterful Nazi propaganda film commissioned by Hitler, Triumph of the Will.32 Ailes had even used some of these techniques for Nixon’s television appearances. Wouldn’t you know it, the motto for TVN was “Fair and Balanced.”
