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Why Roger Ailes Let Glenn Beck Leave

EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here for four reasons we are running an excerpt from Roger Ailes: Off Camera [Penguin/Sentinel, $26.95].

In the fall of 2011, Roger Ailes told journalist Howard Kurtz that he was turning down the partisan heat at the network. Ailes didn’t say so, but he had already decided that, in the interest Read More

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Four Reasons We Are Running an Excerpt from Roger Ailes: Off Camera by Zev Chafets

EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here to read an excerpt from Roger Ailes: Off Camera [Penguin/Sentinel, $26.95].

1. Everyone’s talking about this book–it was excerpted in Vanity FairThe New York Times brutally panned the book (here’s our story about the pan); and Gawker got in on the action.

2. How could you not? Even if Roger Ailes hadn’t built the most successful cable news network (by a lot), his life and times would be fascinating, from the Mike Douglas Show to CNBC, for both his many fans and detractors. Read More