How does Roger Ailes divide the country?
In an extensive interview that aired yesterday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” journalist Gabriel Sherman, author of the soon-to-be-released biography “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant,...
View ArticleThe Daily Show finds love on Fox News’s ‘The Five’
Last year, Fox News weekday afternoon program “The Five” ranked third among cable-news programs. To those who’ve watched the program, that’s hardly a surprise. The interactions among roundtable members...
View ArticleWhy did Roger Ailes’s brother cooperate with new biography?
At the end of his new book, journalist Gabriel Sherman writes about the difficulties of pursuing an unauthorized biography of Fox News chief Roger Ailes. “He discouraged sources close to him from...
View ArticleBenghazi: More ‘stand down’ fallout for Fox News
Twenty-first in a marathon series about Fox News’s Oct. 26 story on Benghazi, Libya. As noted here and here, journalist Gabriel Sherman, the leave-no-stone-unturned biographer of Fox News chief Roger...
View ArticleSay something positive about Roger Ailes!
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive In an attempt to get Gabriel Sherman, unauthorized biographer of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, to prove that his new book, “The...
View ArticleIs Fox News a Republican Party propaganda organ? Rather says no.
In a fresh interview, Larry King asks Dan Rather whether Fox News is an “actual part of the Republican Party.” Rather gives it some consideration, then produces an answer that can best be summed up as...
View ArticleRoger Ailes biographer: On the lookout for ‘misinformation’
In an interview with HuffPost Live, Gabriel Sherman, author of the just-released biography of Roger Ailes “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” talks about how skeptical he had to be in reporting the book:...
View ArticlePunditFact: Fox Newser Andrea Tantaros’s ‘pants on fire’
Who takes Fox News’s “The Five” seriously? It’s something of a clown-time operation, consisting of a bunch of lovable types chatting away about politics and culture. Its freewheeling nature signals to...
View ArticleCritic: Fox News is a ‘retirement community’
Stop paying so much attention to Fox News, urges Frank Rich in long essay about Fox News. A writer-at-large at New York magazine, Rich argues that Fox News’s audience is old and getting even older...
View ArticleCan Fox News’s Bill Hemmer please bump Hannity?
Fox News has announced that daytime anchor Bill Hemmer has signed a “multi-year contract” to stay with the network. For those who check out Fox News in the morning hours, Hemmer is the oh-so-smooth...
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