Rise, Fall, Rise: Roger Ailes and the Fight for America and What Lies Ahead

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Find out the true story of Roger Ailes and his meteoric rise to journalistic fame.Rise, Fall, Rise is the story of how Roger Ailes rose from humble beginnings to conquer entertainment, engineer winning political campaigns, and build a cable network that changed television and politics in America. Elizabeth Ailes builds on her husband unfinished memoirs to share the stories of early television talk shows, winning presidential campaigns, and the launch of two cable networks. She describes the personalities and agendas that fueled the rise of Fox News to #1 in the ratings and forever altered the American political landscape.The history of Fox News and American politics are linked by design. Roger Ailes built a cable network with a very targeted audience … of half the country. For years, Fox News found the perfect balance of news and opinion reflecting views from the left and right. The Fox News motto was “fair and balanced” and throughout the Ailes era, that was true. Post-Ailes, everything changed, especially when the Murdoch sons began fighting for control.Ultimately, it was the conflict between the Murdochs over the direction of Fox News that led to the takedown of Roger Ailes, the politicization of campaign coverage, diminished journalistic standards, and the catastrophic ratings-chasing that led to the Dominion lawsuit, which may destroy Fox. 

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