This week’s issue of New York magazine includes an ambitious and thorough essay by Gabriel Sherman that provides an in-depth and fascinating portrayal of Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It is a must read for anyone curious about the inner-workings of the dominant cable news network, and includes a number of potentially game-changing revelations, a few of which have been outlined below.

In an interview with The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller defended the NY Times ability to cover Fox News objectively, despite comments he made that were critical of the cable news network and the people that regularly watch Fox News. Speaking specifically about his media reporters, Keller claimed “they are professionally indifferent to that fact that Fox maintains a stable of commentators who make a good living bashing the Times.” But did Keller compromise the editorial objectivity of his staff and paper by openly attacking an entity so often in the news?

New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman has signed with Random House to write a book about Fox News. The book, The Loudest Voice in the Room: An Inside Account of the Rise of Fox News will expand on Sherman’s New York cover story on cable news, “Chasing Fox,” which appeared in magazine last fall.

As Michael Calderone reports, Sherman’s book will feature extensive reporting on Fox News boss and founder Roger Ailes:

In a lengthy, wide-ranging article out today, Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine explores a variety of cable news storylines over the past six years.

While CNN and Fox News are involved, the juiciest tidbits come from where he got the most access – MSNBC. Here’s a roundup of some of the revelations:

What else is there left to say about Rupert Murdoch. He’s like the Lindsay Lohan of the media world in his ability to generate copy about his life and loves. The latest is a New York cover story penned by Gabriel Sherman that was burning up Twitter last night when it went live on line.

Over the weekend, we teased Gabriel Sherman‘s The New Republic cover story on the flailing Washington Post — fallen from grace and under the new management of publisher Katharine Weymouth and editor Marcus Brauchli. Now, the entire story is available online and it’s exactly the extensive chronicle of dysfunction and mismanagement that we expected, beginning chiefly with WaPo‘s infamous salongate.

The end is nigh! Again. But will it be the end of free content across the board, or will it be the end of the NYT dominance on the web? We shall see. Over the weekend it was once again reported the NYT may be charging soon. Here’s a look at the reactions.

The New York Times is finally ready to start charging users for access to content online and the plan will be announced by Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. imminently, according to a report this morning. The paper has allegedly agreed on a “metered” system that will ask users to subscribe after a certain amount of free content, though specifics remain elusive.

The media establishment in New York may frequently feel that the dismantling of their industry has reached what could be described as biblical proportions of the “dogs and cats living together” type. Be that as it may, it apparently is not yet bad enough for the New York Post and the New York Daily News to consider “printing together,” despite the fact such an arrangement would feasibly be to their mutual benefit.