Review: The rise of Fox News is told through the man who made it happen in 'Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes'
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 06, 2018
3 minutes
Roger Ailes was chairman and CEO of Fox News, America's most powerful partisan political network, but "Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes" makes the shrewd choice not to view him in strictly ideological terms.
Rather this gripping documentary, directed by Alexis Bloom with the veteran Alex Gibney serving as an executive producer, focuses on Ailes as a manipulator brilliant enough to make Machiavelli jealous, as well as a relentless harasser of women.
None of this is exactly news, but Bloom has worked
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