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Channels with Peter Kafka

How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Gabriel Sherman talks to Peter Kafka about his biography of Fox News' Roger Ailes, which has just been made into a Showtime series with Russell Crowe. He talks about how he wrote the book despite Ailes' pushback and intimidation tactics. Also: how Ailes built up Fox News, and how he might react to the network's relationship to the Trump Whitehouse if he were still alive today. And ...  on working (or not) with Russell Crowe on the set of 'The Loudest Voice in the Room.'  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Fox Media headquarters in New York City, delighted that I have Gabriel Sherman on the show. Wanted him for a long

1:43.8

time. Finally got him here because he's got a TV show of all things about Roger Ailes. Welcome, Gabe. Thanks, Peter. Your brief bio, New York Magazine writer for a long time, now at Vanity Fair, wrote a book about Roger Ailes, and now there is a TV miniseries on Roger Ailes. Congrats. Thank you. Thank you. Did you imagine there was going to be a Roger Ailes

2:01.3

miniseries on television? The short answer is no. You know, you never think as a reporter when you

2:07.6

set out to cover a story that it's going to grow to the level where, you know, Hollywood would want to

2:12.3

get involved. So, you know, it's surreal when I was on set during production to see, you know, Russell Crow, who's, you know, an actor, obviously I've watched my entire adult life to see him inhabiting this role. He really became Roger Ailes and gave me nightmares at certain points because I felt like Roger was back from the dead.

2:30.9

He's very intimidating. I mean, in, in, Wells was in real life and Crow.

2:35.7

Yeah, and that's why I feel like it is such a perfect marriage of, of actor and subject.

2:41.2

They both are larger than life people who command a room.

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