Television and politics -- United States. |
Trump, Donald, 1946- |
Fox News |
Trump, Donald J., 1946- |
Tramp, Donalʹd, 1946- |
Трамп, Дональд, 1946- |
川普唐納德, 1946- |
The Donald, 1946- |
Donald, 1946- |
Trump, Donald, Sr., 1946- |
Trump, Donald John, 1946- |
Trump, Donald John, Sr., 1946- |
Dōnan Thram, 1946- |
Fox News Channel |
FNC |
Television broadcasting -- Political aspects |
Politics and television |
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"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?
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
A deep, dispiriting dive into the nefarious intersection of politics, conspiracy, lies, and money as served up by Donald Trump and Fox News. There are moments when one feels almost sorry for Trump: His niece has spilled nasty beans about him, and his sister has chided him for lying. It's all in a day's work for him. The feeling sorry bit comes when CNN host Stelter suggests that Trump isn't smart enough to concoct his bizarre gibberish. Instead, it comes straight from the "lie-laundering" Fox News, courtesy mostly of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham--and even Hannity, according to one of Stelter's sources, says "that Trump is a batshit crazy person." Trump lives by the TV, tuned to Fox unless some now-departed bête noire like Shepard Smith appears, and it's from Fox that he takes his cues. All of them: a circus of disinformation about lab-hatched viruses, caravans full of terrorists from Guatemala, the "Mueller crime family" that engineered Trump's scarcely mentioned impeachment, and a host of other alternative takes on reality. Stelter provides genealogies for each of Trump's peevish prevarications, not least of them the insistence that the truth is a "hoax," a word that "was uttered more than nine hundred times on Fox News in the first six months of 2020." That numbing repetition, notes the author, erodes the truth with each mantralike utterance. Fox has needed Trump for ratings--its average viewer is 67, an obviously declining demographic--and Trump has needed Fox to serve as echo chamber and think tank. Each obliges the other: "Fox was the gas station where Trump stopped to fill up his tank of resentment," and Trump lends Fox influence over U.S. policy. In a long, sordid, cheerless, and endlessly dishy narrative, Stelter indicts all parties involved for leaving the country "without a properly functioning chief executive." Those inclined to scorn the sitting president will have all the more reason to do so after reading this seething book. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Table of Contents
Prologue | p. 1 |
"Batshit crazy" | p. 7 |
"We surrendered" | p. 14 |
"Profit machine" | p. 19 |
"Unforgivable" | p. 24 |
The Creation | |
"Everybody can be bought" | p. 27 |
"An invisible hand" | p. 34 |
"Mayor of Crazytown" | p. 43 |
"People don't care if it's right" | p. 47 |
"Planet Trump" | p. 51 |
"I thought you were my friend" | p. 55 |
The Candidate | |
"He's out of control" | p. 61 |
"Me too" | p. 63 |
"Business suicide" | p. 71 |
"It I stay here, I'm going to get cancer" | p. 73 |
"I'm a newsman" | p. 78 |
"Is this really happening?" | p. 81 |
"Loyalty is good" | p. 87 |
The Commander | |
"Self-brainwashing" | p. 93 |
"The crowds were much, much smaller" | p. 98 |
"You're getting much better" | p. 103 |
"The bandwagon" | p. 110 |
"I want the O'Reilly lighting" | p. 116 |
"It's going to be a catastrophe" | p. 121 |
"You should be talking to Fox, okay?" | p. 127 |
"Stench" | p. 132 |
"Tell Sean to knock it off" | p. 137 |
"Wardrobe enforcer" | p. 142 |
"It's all so complicated" | p. 145 |
"Anti-journalism" | p. 148 |
"Why all these lies?" | p. 157 |
"Willing to be accomplices" | p. 161 |
"Out of bounds" | p. 166 |
"We print money in the basement" | p. 172 |
The Cult | |
"Fake freak" | p. 181 |
"Clueless" | p. 187 |
"Shadow chief of staff" | p. 194 |
"Desperate" | p. 199 |
"Executive Time" | p. 206 |
"Don't be a baby" | p. 210 |
"No one can stop us" | p. 219 |
"Fix this" | p. 225 |
"Prostitutes" | p. 228 |
The Control Freak | |
"Hate-for-profit racket" | p. 235 |
"Iceberg problem" | p. 239 |
"They'll fire me" | p. 241 |
"The times ahead will test all of us" | p. 247 |
"They owe you an apology" | p. 253 |
"What do you think?" | p. 258 |
"You're going to be called on, Sean" | p. 265 |
"The truth will always matter" | p. 271 |
The Crisis | |
"Complicit" | p. 277 |
"Trump will never forgive you" | p. 281 |
"Democracy at risk" | p. 283 |
"Heat kills this virus" | p. 286 |
"Don't rock the boat" | p. 289 |
"The flu is so much worse" | p. 293 |
"Hazardous to our viewers" | p. 300 |
"No reason to go backwards" | p. 305 |
"I've been watching you" | p. 307 |
"Looking for a new outlet" | p. 310 |
Epilogue | p. 315 |
Acknowledgments | p. 319 |
Notes | p. 321 |
Index | p. 339 |