The House That Roger Ailes Built

Roger Ailes’s death comes at a time of turmoil in conservative journalism -- turmoil caused in no small part by Ailes’s own success in making Fox News into a media-political juggernaut.

Charles Krauthammer, one of Fox’s commentators, jokes that Ailes saw the opportunity to serve a niche market of half the country. The point of the quip is that the major networks had a liberal outlook and millions of Americans wanted something else.