How Roger Ailes Built Fox News

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 24, 2014

New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman talks about how Roger Ailes, the powerful founder of Fox News, built the most influential television news empire of our time. The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country, Sherman looks at how Ailes became an indispensable figure in conservative America and set the right-wing agenda, from the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to the Tea Party attack on the Obama presidency.

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