**_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 News, that reality was arguably established._ - Sherman; _The Loudest Voice in the Room_ > _The viewers Ailes was trying to attract did not want television to tell them what happened in the world. They wanted television to tell them how to think about what happened in the world – the news itself would be secondary._ - Sherman; _The Loudest Voice in the Room_ Although it may seem bizarre to more rational minds, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the wearing of protective face masks has somehow become a partisan issue in the Divided States of America. Those on the left argue that masks should be worn, _must_ be worn if necessary; those on the r…

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), who all brought their A-game to this mini-series. The writing and direction; makeup (bloody hell they did such a good job on Crowe and Miller and McBurney); sound and set designs and score all make this fit perfectly into the time frame it inhabits. My only query with it was why it also didnt show how Fox influenced Bush Jnr's elections, but 7 episodes more than got its message across. (And if the absolutely outstanding Chernobyl hadnt have come out in the same year, I could see this wiping the floor in awards.) So, why am I conflicted? Spending 7 hours of my life with someone like Ailes was hard...very hard. I watched this series in 3 sitt…

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