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Author Sherman, Gabriel, author.

Title The loudest voice in the room : how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News-- and divided a country / Gabriel Sherman.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2014]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  070.43 Ai52Bs 2014    ---  Available
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Edition First edition.
Description xx, 538 pages ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-517) and index.
Contents "The most powerful man in the world" -- "Jump Roger, jump" -- "You can talk your way out of anything" -- The Philadelphia story -- Selling the trick -- REA productions -- A new stage -- Thought pattern revolution -- Risky strategy -- America's talking -- "A very, very dangerous man" -- The Aussie and the Midwesterner -- October surprise -- The right kind of friends -- Anti-Clinton news network -- The call -- Holy war -- Quagmire doesn't rate -- "What are you going to do with all this power?" -- Searching for a new cast -- Comeback -- Trouble on Main Street -- The last campaign.
Summary An inside account of Fox News offers insight into its operations and influence, covering the original launch of the cable news network by Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and the ways in which Fox has become a dominant force in American politics.
Subject Fox News.
Ailes, Roger.
Television broadcasting of news -- United States.
Television and politics -- United States.
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
Ailes, Roger. (OCoLC)fst00210154
Fox News. (OCoLC)fst00785080
Right-wing extremists. (OCoLC)fst01097938
Television and politics. (OCoLC)fst01146689
Television broadcasting of news. (OCoLC)fst01146787
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780812992854 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0812992857 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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