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Fox News CEO Roger Ailes poses at network headquarters in New York. The Fox News Channel will mark its 10th anniversary on Saturday faced with a yearlong ratings slump that has forced the network to rethink its news lineup. (Photos: Associated Press, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News / The Spokesman-Review)
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes poses at network headquarters in New York. The Fox News Channel will mark its 10th anniversary on Saturday faced with a yearlong ratings slump that has forced the network to rethink its news lineup. (Photos: Associated Press, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News / The Spokesman-Review)

Roger Ailes, creator of Fox News, looked back on the cable channel's 15-year success in a recent interview.

Here's my favorite line from the 71-year-old Ailes:

"I just went to my doctor and he said, 'Other than arthritis, your chart reads like a 40-year-old's. You're old, you're fat and you're ugly, but you're not going to die from any of those things immediately.''

(Spokesman-Review archive photo)

Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.