Gabriel Sherman - Roger Ailes, the Loudest Voice in the Room (Point of Inquiry)

This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Gabriel Sherman, writer and contributing editor for New York Magazine and author of the new book The 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.

Sherman 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.

This week we venture into the mind, motivations and mission of the heart of right wing news.

Interview:
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/gabriel_sherman_-_the_loudest_voice_in_the_room_how_the_brilliant_bombastic/