Podcasts Culture Point of Inquiry Gabriel Sherman - The Loudest Voice in the Room : How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

Gabriel Sherman - The Loudest Voice in the Room : How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

Published: Feb. 24, 2014, 8:19 p.m.

This week\xa0Point of Inquiry\xa0welcomes Gabriel Sherman, writer and contributing editor for\xa0New York Magazine\xa0and author of the new book\xa0The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country. The book takes an indepth look at Roger Ailes, the conservative mastermind and president of Fox News Channel, and the effect he has had on American culture.

\n\xa0\nSherman interviewed over 600 people and spent years compiling a history of Ailes, from the 1960s when Ailes was a producer for the "Mike Douglas Show," through Ailes' time with the Nixon administration, all the way to his reign at Fox News. \xa0\n
\nThis week we venture into the mind, motivations and mission of the heart of right wing news.\n\n