Because of “heavy media attention and heightened interest,” Random House is moving the publication date of Gabe Sherman’s book on Roger Ailes up a week, Politico’s Dylan Byers reports. The book, originally scheduled to be released January 21, will now be published next Tuesday, January 14.
Sherman’s book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” has received heavy media attention since The New York Times released the first details from it Tuesday night. Yesterday, New York magazine published a lengthy excerpt about Ailes’ involvement in local politics in Garrison, N.Y., where he owns a home and two local newspapers.
New York released additional excerpts from “Loudest Voice” this afternoon, including an anecdote about Ailes’ first tour of the Wall Street Journal’s News Corp. newsroom:
The ratings failure of the Fox Business Network, which Murdoch had tapped Ailes to launch 2007, was all the more glaring given that Murdoch had acquired The Wall Street Journal around the same time. But Ailes spoke of the Journal as a threat. The paper had no synergy with Fox. Executives noticed that Ailes resented Murdoch’s lavish support of the Journal‘s parent company, Dow Jones, and his close friendship with Robert Thomson, the former editor of The Times of London whom Murdoch tapped to be publisher of the Journal. As Les Hinton, then president of Dow Jones, accompanied Ailes on a tour of the Journal‘s gleaming new newsroom a few floors above Fox News, Ailes grumbled, “So, you’re showing me what I paid for.”
Sherman did not interview Ailes for the book. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published yesterday, Ailes said “attacking me and Fox News is nothing new.”
Speaking of the “gleaming new newsroom” at the Wall Street Journal, MediabistroTV’s CUBES got a tour of it last year. Watch after the jump.