My Review - The Loudest Voice 7/10
I didn't know a lot about the name Roger Ailes before this series in which Russell Crowe again demonstrates what a great actor he is in this portrayal of an obese egomaniac driven by racial hate and prejudice with the same sense of entitlement a French King like Louis X1V would expect.
The new Showtime series ,streaming on Stan begins with Ailes rise in power and shows how he built a News empire on dishonesty, underhandedness, hostility, and greed. With deep-pocketed Rupert Murdoch (Simon McBurney) eager to get a piece of the news media industry, Ailes found a benefactor who'd let him run things his way, even if it skirted journalistic ethics before disposing of them completely. Fox News was born with the paradoxical missions of bringing "fair and balanced" commentary to the 24-hour cable game, and doing so by providing an expressly conservative viewpoint.
The Six part series covers the decade from 1995 to 2005 a very interesting time in the metamorphosis of media reporting when the true fake news began and covers Roger Ailes mission to discredit and stop Barak Obama in his race to the White House. It's the decade when powerful media moguls like Rupert Murdoch began to publish any story even if was untrue ( fake news) just to get it our there and damage their opponent.
It was also the beginning of the end of the era for sexual predators like Ailes to intimidate women with their wealth and power by threatening their careers if they didn't submit. His victims portrayed in this series by Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson and Annabelle Wallis as Laurie Luhn are moving and impressive. Sienna Miller who plays Beth Ailes the deluded Lady Macbeth wife of Ailes is also excellent in her role . The only performance that didn't impress me is Seth MCFarlane as Brian Lewis ,former Fox News Vice President I thought he was too weak and nice in a puppy dog way in his performance of a supposedly powerful Fox News Editor.
I'd recommend this series it helped me understand more how America got into the mess it's in today.
I didn't know a lot about the name Roger Ailes before this series in which Russell Crowe again demonstrates what a great actor he is in this portrayal of an obese egomaniac driven by racial hate and prejudice with the same sense of entitlement a French King like Louis X1V would expect.
The new Showtime series ,streaming on Stan begins with Ailes rise in power and shows how he built a News empire on dishonesty, underhandedness, hostility, and greed. With deep-pocketed Rupert Murdoch (Simon McBurney) eager to get a piece of the news media industry, Ailes found a benefactor who'd let him run things his way, even if it skirted journalistic ethics before disposing of them completely. Fox News was born with the paradoxical missions of bringing "fair and balanced" commentary to the 24-hour cable game, and doing so by providing an expressly conservative viewpoint.
The Six part series covers the decade from 1995 to 2005 a very interesting time in the metamorphosis of media reporting when the true fake news began and covers Roger Ailes mission to discredit and stop Barak Obama in his race to the White House. It's the decade when powerful media moguls like Rupert Murdoch began to publish any story even if was untrue ( fake news) just to get it our there and damage their opponent.
It was also the beginning of the end of the era for sexual predators like Ailes to intimidate women with their wealth and power by threatening their careers if they didn't submit. His victims portrayed in this series by Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson and Annabelle Wallis as Laurie Luhn are moving and impressive. Sienna Miller who plays Beth Ailes the deluded Lady Macbeth wife of Ailes is also excellent in her role . The only performance that didn't impress me is Seth MCFarlane as Brian Lewis ,former Fox News Vice President I thought he was too weak and nice in a puppy dog way in his performance of a supposedly powerful Fox News Editor.
I'd recommend this series it helped me understand more how America got into the mess it's in today.