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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics

Gabriel Sherman

How did one television producer turn politics into entertainment and a news channel into a political force, and who finally challenged him?

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Author
Gabriel Sherman

Why read it

  • You will see how television shapes what voters think of a candidate, long before any policy is discussed
  • You will understand how a news network can be built around a point of view and sold as balance
  • You will learn how one powerful man's conduct can go unchecked until someone finds a way to document it

Who it is for

  • A reader who watches cable news and wonders who shapes it
  • A marketer or communications person studying media power
  • An employee in a company ruled by one dominant boss

Contents

  1. Epigrams
  2. A NOTE TO THE READER
  3. PROLOGUE
  4. “The Most Powerful Man in the World”
  5. ONE
  6. “JUMP ROGER, JUMP”
  7. TWO
  8. “YOU CAN TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF ANYTHING”
  9. THREE
  10. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
  11. FOUR
  12. SELLING THE TRICK
  13. FIVE
  14. REA PRODUCTIONS
  15. SIX
  16. A NEW STAGE
  17. SEVEN
  18. THOUGHT PATTERN REVOLUTION
  19. EIGHT
  20. RISKY STRATEGY
  21. NINE
  22. AMERICA’S TALKING
  23. TEN
  24. “A VERY, VERY DANGEROUS MAN”
  25. ELEVEN
  26. THE AUSSIE AND THE MIDWESTERNER
  27. TWELVE
  28. OCTOBER SURPRISE
  29. THIRTEEN
  30. THE RIGHT KIND OF FRIENDS
  31. FOURTEEN
  32. ANTI-CLINTON NEWS NETWORK
  33. FIFTEEN
  34. THE CALL
  35. SIXTEEN
  36. HOLY WAR
  37. SEVENTEEN
  38. QUAGMIRE DOESN’T RATE
  39. EIGHTEEN
  40. “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS POWER?”
  41. NINETEEN
  42. SEARCHING FOR A NEW CAST
  43. TWENTY
  44. COMEBACK
  45. TWENTY-ONE
  46. TROUBLE ON MAIN STREET
  47. TWENTY-TWO
  48. THE LAST CAMPAIGN
  49. AFTERWORD
  50. A NOTE ON SOURCES

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