{"id":2954,"date":"2026-09-18T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/roger-ailes-the-man-who-built-fox-news-and-divided-america\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:38:54","slug":"roger-ailes-the-man-who-built-fox-news-and-divided-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/ar\/roger-ailes-the-man-who-built-fox-news-and-divided-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ailes: the man who built Fox News and divided America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dev95-2753068891\" class=\"dev95-- dev95-entity-placement\"><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl27862732.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\"><\/div><\/div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Loudest-Voice-in-the-Room-book-cover.jpeg?resize=565%2C848&#038;ssl=1\" alt='Cover image of \"The Loudest Voice in the Room,\" ' class=\"wp-image-92065\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Loudest-Voice-in-the-Room-book-cover.jpeg 565w, https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Loudest-Voice-in-the-Room-book-cover-333x500.jpeg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">As a teenager growing up in the 1950s in Lima, Ohio, (population 50,000 then), I learned that our local daily, <em>The Lima News<\/em>, had been purchased by a man named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_C._Hoiles\">R. C. Hoiles<\/a>. Hoiles lived in Orange County, California, and was a member of the John Birch Society. He owned a chain of small-town newspapers which he called (surprise!) Freedom Newspapers. I didn\u2019t know any of that at the time, though. What I knew was just what I read in the <em>News<\/em>: editorials denouncing the \u201csocialistic\u201d concept of free public schools and paeans to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the drunken liar and bully who claimed to see Communists under every desk.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-growing-up-democratic-in-a-republican-stronghold-with-a-communist-art-teacher\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing up Democratic in a Republican stronghold with a Communist art teacher<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By now you\u2019ve guessed, of course, that I grew up in a Democratic household. My parents were New Deal Democrats we\u2019d consider quaint and conservative today. And I learned very early to disregard the ravings of Hoiles\u2019 mouthpiece at the local paper. Although we Democrats were a small minority in a conservative Republican town, where the <em>News<\/em> frequently represented local opinion, Hoiles and his ilk were almost as widely disregarded in the larger society as my painting teacher, Mrs. Elmer McClain. She was a ranking member of the Communist Party who was warmly received in Moscow by Nikita Khrushchev (I kid you not).<\/p><div id=\"dev95-1946489912\" class=\"dev95- dev95-entity-placement\"><center>\r\n<script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 50,\r\n    'width' : 320,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t<\/center><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\">\n<h4 id=\"h-the-loudest-voice-in-the-room-how-the-brilliant-bombastic-roger-ailes-built-fox-news-and-divided-a-country-nbsp-by-gabriel-sherman-2014-578-pages\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News\u2014and Divided a Country<\/em>\u00a0by Gabriel Sherman (2014) 578 pages \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/h4>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roger-ailes.jpg?resize=565%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roger-ailes.jpg 565w, https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roger-ailes-350x234.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Roger Ailes against a familiar backdrop. Image: <\/em>Vanity Fair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-pushy-and-yes-loud\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pushy, and, yes, loud<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, those were the good old days, when there was a Left and a Right, and nobody paid much attention to either! But in the 90s we got <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Ailes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roger Ailes<\/a> (1940-2017). He was just as loopy and far to the Right as old R. C. Hoiles, if not more so. And not only was he widely regarded as brilliant\u2014but he\u2019s also launched and ran the most successful television news network in the country. Early on, it became a billion-dollar venture that is widely understood to have been an extension of the Republican Party\u2019s Right Wing ever since. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ailes, it turns out, was raised in a similar Ohio town, Warren, and at about the same time as I was. (He was almost exactly one year older than me but died in 2017.) Surprisingly, though, Ailes showed little interest in politics until 1967. Then he managed to trap then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon in an hour-long private meeting. At the time, he was a producer at an Ohio television station. Ailes talked himself into a job as \u201cmedia advisor\u201d to Nixon. That, despite being, to all appearances, a liberal who disdained many of Nixon\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ailes\u2019 influence grew steadily over the years<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future founder of Fox News played a relatively small role in Nixon\u2019s campaign. But in subsequent elections (Reagan in 1984, Bush I in 1992, Bush II in 2000, McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012) his influence was considerably greater. This allowed him to claim that he had \u201celected presidents.\u201d By then, politics had hooked him thoroughly. And with every successive campaign in which Ailes became involved, his political views seemed to shift further to the Right. Along the way, he:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Helped swing the 2000 election to George W. Bush<\/li>\n<li>Became Rush Limbaugh\u2019s executive producer and a personal friend<\/li>\n<li>Put Glenn Beck on national television<\/li>\n<li>Championed the rise of the Tea Party<\/li>\n<li>Promoted partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill and throughout the country<\/li>\n<li>Made billions of dollars for his boss, the Australian-American media mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Murdoch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a> (born 1931)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger Ailes built the Fox News Network beginning in 1996. He based the network on his conviction that news should be presented as entertainment. He emphasized maximum drama and conflict. It\u2019s a little hard to tell whether this belief helped propel Ailes Rightward or it served as rationalization for his and Fox\u2019s steady drift toward Right-Wing extremism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Fox-News-daytime-Line-up.jpg?resize=565%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92070\" style=\"width:565px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Fox-News-daytime-Line-up.jpg 565w, https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Fox-News-daytime-Line-up-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fox News weekday programs helped the network crush CNN and MSNBC viewership in 2022 and since.\u00a0Ailes employed men and women with pretty faces who were willing to toe the party line. Image: Fox News<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">He was as extreme as the times allowed<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearly, the outwardly visible benchmarks of Ailes\u2019 career identified him as about as extreme as you could get in contemporary America a decade ago. Now, of course, during Donald Trump\u2019s second term in the Oval Office, Ailes might not make the cut into the president\u2019s inner circle. He may have been smart enough to understand the massive blowback, both short-term and long, to Trump\u2019s violence-prone and kleptocratic behavior and policies. For me, having observed national politics for 70 years, it\u2019s hard to imagine how anyone at all could support the man. And someone like Roger Ailes, who set at least some limits on the extremism of his network\u2019s stars, doesn\u2019t seem he would be a big fan of the president today <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was not so easily visible back in Ailes\u2019 day was his behavior at the office and at home in Garrison, New York. There, he maintained a 9,000-square-foot mountaintop fortress with a \u201cpanic room\u201d underground. It was there to protect him and his wife for six months in the event of a terrorist assault on the site. In\u00a0<em>The Loudest Voice in the Room, <\/em>you can read all about Ailes\u2019 outrageous behavior toward his colleagues, his subordinates, his neighbors, and even his friends as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, you\u2019ll find a bare-bones outline of Ailes\u2019 life on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Ailes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>. However, if you want the real story, read this book. It was carefully researched and written with restraint. Despite the fact that the full spectrum of Ailes\u2019 lunacy does come through clearly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A century ago, men who behaved like Ailes would have been tagged as \u201ceccentric.\u201d Nowadays we know better. The man was simply nuts. Brilliant, but <em>nuts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-about-the-author\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Gabriel_Sherman_at__The_Apprentice__in_NYC.jpeg?resize=565%2C712&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of Gabriel Sherman, author of \" class=\"wp-image-92073\" style=\"width:275px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Gabriel_Sherman_at__The_Apprentice__in_NYC.jpeg 565w, https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Gabriel_Sherman_at__The_Apprentice__in_NYC-350x441.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Gabriel Sherman also wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film, <\/em>The Apprentice<em>, about Donald Trump. He called the 47th president \u201ca talentless hack.\u201d Image: Wikipedia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American journalist, author, and screenwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriel_Sherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gabriel Sherman<\/a> is a special correspondent for\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em> and contributes to\u00a0NBC News\u00a0and\u00a0MSNOW. <em>The Loudest Voice in the Room<\/em> was the first of his two books to date. He followed it in 2026 with the related <em>Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family\u2014and the World<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1979. He graduated from Middlebury College in\u00a0Middlebury, Vermont. He is married. Sherman, his wife, and children live in London, England. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-for-related-reading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">For related reading<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll find this book on:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/good-books-about-billionaires\/\">Good books about billionaires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/best-books-of-the-decade\/\">The 40 best books of the decade<\/a> from 2010-19 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/business-history-2\/\">My 10 favorite books about business history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malwarwickonbooks.com\/best-books-about-innovation\/\">Best books about innovation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like to read good biography? 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Hoiles lived in Orange County, California, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"hosteria-entry-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev95.site\/ar\/roger-ailes-the-man-who-built-fox-news-and-divided-america\/\" class=\"no-underline font-light  group-hover:text-primary-800 dark:group-hover:text-primary-300 py-1\">Read more &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_2954\" class=\"pvc_stats total_only\" data-element-id=\"2954\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewbox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/dev95.site\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fp_fajr_begins":"","fp_fajr_iqamah":"","fp_dhuhr_begins":"","fp_dhuhr_iqamah":"","fp_asr_begins":"","fp_asr_iqamah":"","fp_maghrib_begins":"","fp_maghrib_iqamah":"","fp_isha_begins":"","fp_isha_iqamah":"","fp_midnight":"","fp_midnight_name":"","fp_sunrise":"","fp_single_prayer_begins_title":"","fp_single_prayer_iqamah_title":"","fp_prayer_times_for_today":"","fp_hijra_date":"","fp_fajr_name":"","fp_dhuhr_name":"","fp_asr_name":"","fp_maghrib_name":"","fp_isha_name":"","fp_sunrise_name":"","fp_currentDate":"","fp_current_time":"","fp_current_title":"","fp_current_location":"","fp_masjid_name":"","fp_prayer_title":"","fp_next_prayer_iqamah_time":"","fp_next_prayer_iqamah_title":"","fp_next_prayer_begins_time":"","fp_next_prayer_begins_title":"","fp_next_prayer_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":11,"today_views":11},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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