Fox the Con News?
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News,
and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.
By Brian Stelter
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A thorough and damning exploration of
the incestuous relationship between
Trump and his favorite channel.”
—The New York Times
“A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency
that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal humans.”
—Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
“Stelter’s critique goes beyond salacious tidbits about
extramarital affairs (though there are plenty of those)
to expose a collusion that threatens the pillars
of our democracy.”
—The Washington Post
The urgent and untold story of the collusion
between Fox News and Donald Trump from
the New York Times bestselling
author of Top of the Morning.
While
other leaders were marshaling resources
to combat the greatest pandemic in modern history,
President Donald Trump was watching TV.
Trump watches over six hours of
Fox News a day, a habit his staff refers to
as “executive time.”
In January 2020,
when Fox News began to downplay
COVID-19, the President was quick to agree.
In March, as the deadly virus
spiraled out of control, Sean Hannity mocked
“coronavirus hysteria” as a “new hoax”from the left.
Millions of Americans took Hannity
and Trump’s words as truth—until
some of them started to get sick.
In Hoax,
CNN anchor and chief media
correspondent Brian Stelter tells
the twisted story of the relationship
between Donald Trump and Fox News.
From the moment Trump glided down
the golden escalator to announce
his candidacy in the 2016 presidential
election to his acquittal on two articles
of impeachment in early 2020,
Fox hosts spread his lies
and smeared his enemies.
Over
the course of two years,
Stelter spoke with over 250 current
and former Fox insiders in an effort
to understand the inner workings of
Rupert Murdoch’s multibillion-dollar
media empire.
Some of the confessions are alarming.
“We don’t really believe all this stuff,”
a producer says.
“We just tell
other people to believe it.”
At the center
of the story lies Sean Hannity,
a college dropout who, following
the death of Fox News mastermind
Roger Ailes, reigns supreme at the network
that pays him $30 million a year.
Stelter describes the raging tensions
inside Fox between the Trump loyalists
and the few remaining journalists.
He reveals
why former chief news anchor
Shep Smith resigned in disgust in 2019;
why a former anchor said
“if I stay here I’ll get cancer;”
and how Trump has exploited
the leadership vacuum at the top to
effectively seize control of
the network.
Including
never before reported details,
Hoax exposes the media personalities
who, though morally bankrupt,
profit outrageously by promoting
the President’s propaganda and
radicalizing the American right.
It is a book
for anyone who reads the news
and wonders: How did this happen?
Review
“A deep, dispiriting dive into the nefarious
intersection of politics, conspiracy, lies,
and money as served up by Donald Trump
and Fox News.”
— Kirkus (starred review)
“Stelter’s account gives a sense that […]
there’s no one really in control —
that Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham and
the “ Fox & Friends” morning team
can essentially do what they want.”
— Associated Press
“[Stelter] chronicles the symbiotic
relationship between [Trump] and
Rupert Murdoch’s most famous product …
Hoax is amply documented.”
— The Guardian
About the Author
Brian Stelter is the chief
media correspondent for CNN Worldwide
and anchor of Reliable Sources,
which examines the world’s top media
stories every Sunday.
Prior to joining CNN in 2013,
Stelter was a media reporter at
The New York Times.
His first book,
the New York Times bestseller
Top of the Morning, inspired
the Apple TV+ drama
The Morning Show.
Stelter is a consulting
producer on the series.
He is also the executive producer
of the HBO documentary
After Truth: Disinformation and
the Cost of Fake News.
He lives in New York
with his wife and two children
and is also the author of Hoax.
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