The Loudest Voice

A fine overview of a pivotal figure in American socio-political history and an insightful piece of cultural anthropology

Through Fox, Ailes helped polarize the American electorate, drawing sharp with-us-or-against-us lines, demonizing foes, preaching against compromise.

• Gabriel Sherman; The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News and Divided a Country (2014)

_That a news executive was essentially running the Republican Party was a remarkable development in American politics. But it was an outcome Ailes foretold. After the 19__68 campaign, Ailes spoke of a time when television would replace the political party, that other mass organizer of the twentieth century. With Fox Ne...

Im conflicted.
This was both a very hard watch and at the same time, very enthralling thing to watch.
Ol' Rusty wiped the floor with this mesmerising performance and his Golden Globe was well deserved (I dont not have enough adjectives for this). Although I personally have not seen a bad performance from him, his acting recently has been reminiscent of his time in the 90s and early 2000s where he was willing to take edgier, more complex roles. Here, he has tapped into his sinisterly menacing side in a way that he has not done since Hando in Romper Stomper. I cannot gush enough about his performance.
Nor can I fail to mention the other main actors (Watts, Miller, McFarlane, Wallis and even McBurney in a small role as Murdoch), wh...