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Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
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91/100Author:
Brian Stelter
Publisher:
Atria/One Signal Publishers
Date:
August 25, 2020
The story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the author of Top of the Morning.
What The Reviewers Say
... damning if somewhat uneven.
While Stelter relies on insider accounts for some juicy details, much of the disturbing content in Hoax didn’t require any special access. He reported what has been said on the air and how it echoed or was echoed by Trump’s Twitter feed.
This is the value of Hoax, the new book by the CNN journalist Brian Stelter. It provides a thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel — and of Fox’s democracy-decaying role as a White House propaganda organ masquerading as conservative journalism.
In March 2019, the New Yorker published a scathing story by Jane Mayer detailing the deepening connections between President Trump and Fox News, the most-watched cable news network...Hoax covers much the same ground and offers much the same argument, but in a catty, chatty tone that makes for an easy read, though a less substantive one.
