The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - And Divided a Country
Event
In October 1996, Americans began turning their televisions to a channel that would change the country's media and political landscape forever.
In the nearly two decades since its fateful launch, Fox News Channel has become a profound force in the news industry. It has dominated its cable competitors, given rise to a new breed of press and punditry, won over alienated and disaffected conservatives, and shaped the partisan political conversation in our nation.
But how deep does this influence go? What does the current state of American media consumption - across the ideological spectrum - mean for an informed citizenry?
Join New America and Gabriel Sherman, author of The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country, for a conversation about the impact of one of the most powerful media forces of our time, and how it has, and hasn't, been able to shape the modern American political arena.
Join the conversation online using #loudestvoice and following @NewAmerica.
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Participants
Gabriel Sherman
Author, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country
2014 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Amy Mitchell
Director, Journalism Research, Pew Research Center
Moderator:
Franklin Foer
Editor, The New Republic
2012 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation