How much can one single individual influence the political landscape?
Spin doctor Roger Ailes was a political adviser to Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani‘s first mayoral campaign. to become a newsman. As he transitioned to what later became MSNBC, he more or less invented television formats where people just talked about politics for hours on end.
After MSNBC, with the backing of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, Ailes started Fox News in 1996. The idea was to create a Republican news channel. As Ailes saw it, all other news networks was run by the Liberal party — or at least their agenda. The television series depicts how Ailes built Fox News from the ground up using plenty of power plays and persuasion techniques.