Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth - Brian Stelter
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“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 best-selling 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 more than 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 News hosts spread his lies and smeared his enemies. Over the course of two years, Stelter spoke with more than 250 current and former Fox News 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?
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This post has 42 comments with rating of 3.8/5
September 20th, 2020
Thank you for sharing!
September 20th, 2020
Cue outrage from Trump loyalists. Doesn’t it suck when your false idol gets the torch?
September 20th, 2020
As if it is not enough being Brian Stelter, it is CNN! Wait! there is more, it is eulogized by The New York Times, MSNBC and The Washington Post: the Good Book of duplicity.
September 20th, 2020
The cover artist clearly wants to see the back of him.
September 20th, 2020
Hahaha!
Brian Stelter.
Say No More…
September 20th, 2020
Thanks.
September 20th, 2020
The irony of this book is so far beyond measure that satire is not even in the same zip code.
September 20th, 2020
Badly written Babylon Bee
September 20th, 2020
LOL “reliable” sources
September 20th, 2020
Fox News brainwashing works. That’s how this sh!t happened.
September 20th, 2020
I humbly submit that brainwashing works, at least on a short term basis. Such conditioning is to be seen everywhere, and at all levels.
Political promises could also be thought to be the substance of such conditioning, and they function as suasion for an electorate, until the inevitable, disappointing failure - which be playin’ out in realz time, homies.
September 20th, 2020
Of course, that said, you don’t really vote for someone, you vote against the other personage. So, the successful conditioning operation must orient against someone/something.
September 20th, 2020
mikkins, your comment is spot on! I agree totally. On the other hand, Mr. Stelter, given his ideology and job, and based on past performances, as well as having seen him discuss this book recently, actually IS an expert on HOAXES. His station specializes in them.
September 20th, 2020
I appreciate your comments Caesar963, they always add something that’s not already there.
September 20th, 2020
I’m going to use your review as part of the blurb for my forthcoming booky wook, Jim, provisionally entitled “Tissue of Truth.”
September 20th, 2020
this is hysterical. Brian Stelter lecturing on distorting the truth? lol this would be like having Hitler talk about the evils of anti-Semitism….rich.
September 20th, 2020
Love “Tissue of Truth”
September 20th, 2020
There’s apparently two categories of books about Trump: 1. Trump lies. 2. That’s a lie about Trump lying.
September 20th, 2020
The best propaganda simply “confirms” that which we already believe. Any lies told thereafter then support commonly held belief and are simply accepted in context: no verification is needed nor will refutation be accepted.
September 20th, 2020
@whiteknight06604-Hitler’s take on the evils of antisemitism would be that it’s simply propaganda of the Jewish-controlled media. More hysterical is Trump’s rants against “corruption.”
September 21st, 2020
Drivel.
September 21st, 2020
After the war, Oscar Schindler was walking down a street in Germany. Two workmen recognized him and spat down on him.
Even given all that time they could not allow themselves be wrong.
Like them, the majority of Trumpets won’t wake up.
So dance on, little Trumpets, dance on. (Watch those bone spurs.) Your dance will bring us all down.
September 21st, 2020
I find it funny that none of you have one thing to say about the book. A bunch of hypocritical people hiding behind their computer screens, like they’re gods gift. Your opinions on politics means nothing in this forum, so stfu and just give your opinion on the book.
And for you talking down on Trump, I hope none of you are voting for Biden. Because you would definitely be the dumber of the flock of sheep.
September 21st, 2020
You had an excellent point, Magicman68.
Then you ruined it by pulling back the curtain on yourself with your second paragraph.
Is that your wand drooping, Magicman68?
September 21st, 2020
Is it read by Mark Dice? If not, it should be.
September 21st, 2020
Brian Stelter….. lol
September 21st, 2020
Trump followers will loose either way, whether Trump gains another term or not. The thing is, the whole world will loose if Trump wins.
September 21st, 2020
Bury your tiny pointy heads Magats, your short time of relevance is coming to an end.
September 22nd, 2020
And CNN and MSNBC and Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the corporate & oligarch owned bullhorns that spew endless divde and rule propaganda to hyper emotional tribal sheep who continue to gobble it up. The ‘culture war’ is mostly manufactured by those who continue to pick your pockets. The real war is class war & y’all lost. They are laughing at how y’all dupes continue to fall for these cartoon narratives.
It’s a Big Club & you ain’t in it.
https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso
September 22nd, 2020
I’m in that Club! The meetings are cool - they put on a lovely buffet. You can really get stuffed.
October 3rd, 2020
thank you!
October 4th, 2020
unfortunately so true apnea.
October 13th, 2020
Fox News is destroying the country. Making an audience that is fearful, angry, outraged, and misinformed from a mountain of lies.
October 15th, 2020
READ BY MARK DICE!
LOL!
October 15th, 2020
READVBY MARK DICE…
October 19th, 2020
Another courageous (safe) and original (desperately mainstream)
“Stand Against Trump” for a likewise circle jerk audience of the insecure/autistic/weak minded. The kind who are convinced they have real opinions but really just subscribe to whichever is the most popular and easy to defend.
October 21st, 2020
Marxists, Un-American trash!
Their indoctrinations, their ill conceived delusions & their lies, as they try to destroy the American Way..
September 30th, 2021
Finally a balanced and thoughtful assessment of the Trump era chaos from acknowledged expert in the field of contemporary politics and highly respected media giant Brian Stetler.
Undoubtably this book will become THE essential historical reference point for future historians in understanding our current political and social landscape, and demonstrate just how implicit the media were in the destablisation and fall of Western civilisation.
An entertaining and insightful book that could only have been improved by a Mark Dice narration.
February 20th, 2023
The right wing comments on here have aged really well.
April 19th, 2023
Those of you who blame Trump and his supporters miss the point. Right wingers are not all racists and left wingers are not all anti free speech and fascists. By labelling each other with these simple headlines is the sign of a lazy mind and doesn’t understand that the media needs extremes for us to click on their stories. They sell hate, and we buy it.
May 27th, 2023
Never trust anything the left says or does! They make up stuff and “claim” it is true!
March 24th, 2025
Stelter is a gas bag.
From Failed “news” reporter (🤣) to author, the lies, distortions and fake narratives keep going on.
The book is filled with falsehoods, half “truths” and out right fabrications.
One’s money would be better spent buying a subscription to Mad Magazine than this awful waste of paper.
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