The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.
Showtime’s sinister twin to HBO’s The Newsroom, The Loudest Voice lies at the opposite end of the journalism spectrum. Russell Crowe does a fantastic performance as late Roger Ailes, a hardcore conservative and founder of Fox News, unfurling the lies, paranoia, and sexual abuse on which ‘Faux’ News was built. And yet, it stands as the #1 news channel in the US (as mentioned in the end of the film).
“We don’t report the news, we make the news.” Sucks to see how strikingly similar a journey few news networks in India have taken. Pick a side suiting your ideologies, and any reporting from the other end will always seem twisted, regardless of being factually accurate or not. A sick narrative that any development impacting someone is always backed by some ulterior political motive. And this brings to the plate exactly that.
Showtime’s sinister twin to HBO’s The Newsroom, The Loudest Voice lies at the opposite end of the journalism spectrum. Russell Crowe does a fantastic performance as late Roger Ailes, a hardcore conservative and founder of Fox News, unfurling the lies, paranoia, and sexual abuse on which ‘Faux’ News was built. And yet, it stands as the #1 news channel in the US (as mentioned in the end of the film).
“We don’t report the news, we make the news.” Sucks to see how strikingly similar a journey few news networks in India have taken. Pick a side suiting your ideologies, and any reporting from the other end will always seem twisted, regardless of being factually accurate or not. A sick narrative that any development impacting someone is always backed by some ulterior political motive. And this brings to the plate exactly that.
