12 Jan 2014 12:00 pm
This morning I watched an interview by Brian Stelter on CNN's Reliable Sources of Gabriel Sherman, the author of a highly anticipated book due out this Tuesday.
It's called, "The Loudest Voice In The Room" and it is the unauthorized biography of Fox News President Roger Ailes.
It took him almost three years to write, and he interviewed over 600 people. A team of two fact-checkers spent more than 2,000 hours vetting the manuscript before publication. He made a dozen requests both in writing and in person to speak with Roger Ailes about every aspect of my book, but Ailes refused.
From the interview:
Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview: Ailes ‘More Extreme Than Glenn Beck’
It's called, "The Loudest Voice In The Room" and it is the unauthorized biography of Fox News President Roger Ailes.
It took him almost three years to write, and he interviewed over 600 people. A team of two fact-checkers spent more than 2,000 hours vetting the manuscript before publication. He made a dozen requests both in writing and in person to speak with Roger Ailes about every aspect of my book, but Ailes refused.
From the interview:
You can watch the interview at the link below.Sherman: “What I learned is that Roger Ailes has created a political operation that employs journalists. It exists for two reasons: to generate as much profit as possible for its corporate parent, Rupert Murdoch, and to advance the personal, political agenda of its founder, Roger Ailes…The story is not Fox News, the story is Roger Ailes. The network is a complete expression of his worldview.”
Stelter: “So you’re saying it’s a news channel, and it’s also a political machine?”
Sherman: “No, I’m saying it’s a political machine that employs journalists."
Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview: Ailes ‘More Extreme Than Glenn Beck’