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Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
The New York Times bestselling author of HOAX, “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential” ( The New Republic ) Fox News, returns with an even more explosive account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections
In the wake of Joe Biden’s unequivocal victory against Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Fox News anchors started to panic. They swapped out the truth about Biden for lies about Trump, and their stories about voting irregularities and “rigged” systems fueled a fire of misinformation, hate, and even violence. Now, facing unprecedented billion-dollar defamation lawsuits, and with the 2024 election rapidly approaching, Fox is in hot water—and it’s only getting hotter. With the lawsuits dragging the network’s shameful secrets into the light—such as Tucker Carlson’s passionate hatred for Donald Trump and Sean Hannity’s contempt for own colleagues—the future of the network, and the Republican Party, hangs in the balance. Featuring Brian Stelter’s signature “thorough and damning” ( The New York Times ) investigative prowess and filled with outrageous behind-the-scenes details, Network of Lies is a page-turning, urgent examination of the insidious ways the media is damaging our democracy—and what we must do to preserve it.
In the wake of Joe Biden’s unequivocal victory against Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Fox News anchors started to panic. They swapped out the truth about Biden for lies about Trump, and their stories about voting irregularities and “rigged” systems fueled a fire of misinformation, hate, and even violence. Now, facing unprecedented billion-dollar defamation lawsuits, and with the 2024 election rapidly approaching, Fox is in hot water—and it’s only getting hotter. With the lawsuits dragging the network’s shameful secrets into the light—such as Tucker Carlson’s passionate hatred for Donald Trump and Sean Hannity’s contempt for own colleagues—the future of the network, and the Republican Party, hangs in the balance. Featuring Brian Stelter’s signature “thorough and damning” ( The New York Times ) investigative prowess and filled with outrageous behind-the-scenes details, Network of Lies is a page-turning, urgent examination of the insidious ways the media is damaging our democracy—and what we must do to preserve it.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published November 14, 2023
About the author
Brian Stelter
4 books68 followersBrian Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN and anchor of the show Reliable Sources. He was previously a staff writer at the New York Times and was featured as a subject in the New York Times documentary Page One. Before joining the Times in 2007, he was the founder and editor of TVNewser, the pre-eminent blog about the television news industry, which was sold to MediaBistro in 2004.
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November 24, 2023
I used to watch Brian Stelter's CNN show Reliable Sources back when I had cable and paid attention to corporate news. I liked the show because it attempted to call out the media on its lies. It was the best you were going to get from corporate media. So when I heard about this book while listening to a podcast I just knew I had to pick it up.
Network Of Lies is a fun gossipy exploration of the symbiotic relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump. It takes a look at how Fox News too lately discovered that it was no longer in charge of Republicans and right wing media. Basically for the last 30 years Fox News has set the agenda for how Republicans think, they have controlled the right wing as a whole. Even after Trump rose to power, Fox News still thought it was in control....then on election night in 2020 it called Arizona for Biden and its audience turned on them.
Fox News viewers live in an alternate universe and Fox News likes it like that...but the Arizona call punctured that fantasy world and turned Trump against them. Fox News' efforts to win him back would result in them sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic another voting machine company. Fox News spread conspiracy theories and lies about voter fraud in the 2020 election. During depositions many wild secrets were uncovered about Fox News and its personalities and possibly lead to its biggest star Tucker Carlson( my dad always calls him Carl Tuckman...why because he thinks that's his name) being fired. Fox News paid out nearly a billion dollars to Dominion but that hasn't stopped the lying.
This book is juicy and gossipy. We hear about who hates who and whose possibly having extramarital affairs. It's a fun read...if you don't think about how Fox News is actively working to destroy democracy.
If you like gossip or just good old fashioned media critique than I think you'll enjoy Network Of Lies.
Network Of Lies is a fun gossipy exploration of the symbiotic relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump. It takes a look at how Fox News too lately discovered that it was no longer in charge of Republicans and right wing media. Basically for the last 30 years Fox News has set the agenda for how Republicans think, they have controlled the right wing as a whole. Even after Trump rose to power, Fox News still thought it was in control....then on election night in 2020 it called Arizona for Biden and its audience turned on them.
Fox News viewers live in an alternate universe and Fox News likes it like that...but the Arizona call punctured that fantasy world and turned Trump against them. Fox News' efforts to win him back would result in them sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic another voting machine company. Fox News spread conspiracy theories and lies about voter fraud in the 2020 election. During depositions many wild secrets were uncovered about Fox News and its personalities and possibly lead to its biggest star Tucker Carlson( my dad always calls him Carl Tuckman...why because he thinks that's his name) being fired. Fox News paid out nearly a billion dollars to Dominion but that hasn't stopped the lying.
This book is juicy and gossipy. We hear about who hates who and whose possibly having extramarital affairs. It's a fun read...if you don't think about how Fox News is actively working to destroy democracy.
If you like gossip or just good old fashioned media critique than I think you'll enjoy Network Of Lies.
November 26, 2023
I held Stelter’s previous book “Hoax,” in contempt; he didn’t fully grasp that Fox was populated with evil beings and they are destroying the country by enabling the MAGA moron Fascists to destroy democracy. This book is different. Stelter is shouting as loud as I shout and is doing everything in his power to warn us against the rot of evil that is within Fox and their minions who shape it. Thank you Stelter, for seeing the world the way I do!
Stelter gets it that the Maga mob controls Fox more than Fox controls them. Tucker Carlson was a special pernicious scab on America and his racism, hate, and incoherence reflected that of his viewers. Stelter mentioned that only 1/100th of Fox’s audience is made up of Black Americans, and that Tucker thought the Dominion lawsuit jury was made up of low IQ members since 5 of them were Black, and Stelter even refers to Fox as “white wing”. Tucker is a willful racist fascist agitator spouting substance free conspiracy incoherences, those who work at Fox are too; Trump is as dangerous as Hitler, and if he wins there will never be a need to have books like this one. Thank you, Brian Stelter, for seeing reality for the way it is and warning against the scum at Fox and the viewers who shape Fox.
I re-read my review for “Hoax” because I wanted to be reminded what I thought about before the run-up to the previous election. Stelter in those days didn’t get it and that made me mad at his book, he thought the evil that resided within Fox and their viewers were worth trying to convert. They are not: Fox viewers mean the things they say in the comment sections of Breitbart and their white wing sites . They do not share the same reality that I experience and Fox gives them what they want, and they give Fox what they want through ratings that equate to their bottom line of profits. The system sucks, but Stelter is shouting a warning and kudos to him for that. Tolerance is not required to those who want to enslave you, and Fox, Trump, and their fascist viewers are not deserving of tolerance.
Since this book is recent and current to today, Stelter gets to talk about Fox opinion presenters and its viewers previous hate of Homosexuals, Transgender, Woke-nonsense, abortion madness, Critical Race Theory, Dr Seus books, wars on Christmas, and many of their other hate agendas and goofy conspiracy theories. One must have a nightly line-up of fact free news with a special blend of hate opinions spouted by presenters who should just “shut up and dribble” to keep track of the lies: Trump won the election, voting machines are rigged, psychics from the future saw the fraud (Maria Bartiromo comes off as an especially willfully ignorantly psychotic), and so on.
Stelter said Trump’s delusion was embraced as a Bartiromo initiated delusion, I would say that Bartiromo was willfully in on the con and when a person’s paycheck is threatened by telling the truth, the falsehood will be embraced as truth since greed trumps goodness when it comes to a paycheck; Bartiromo willfully created the Dominion voting machine fabrication and then Trump took the delusion and made it his own, and in the process Bartiromo increased her relevance and her paycheck by 10 fold while the MAGA mob embraced the lie since it made them feel good, and as Fox tried to backtrack on the lie the MAGA Fox watchers switched off Fox in mass and switched on Newsmax thus causing Fox to embrace the delusion all the more because their viewers demanded it, a vicious circle motivated by even more money for the one who could tell the biggest lie that the viewers craved.
Fox was right to fire Tucker Carlson. He needed them more than they needed him, and I’m certain none of the suits at Fox regret that decision today. Today Carlson is as relevant as Father Coughlin was when he lost his radio show, and more importantly for Fox they have neutered all dissent within their own ranks without missing a beat. Without that platform Carlson is a non-entity. X (formerly known as twitter) is a place where relevancy goes to disappear into the ether of the outer edges of outer space and Carlson was last seen being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly and supposedly having some kind of platform where he interviewed Trump that nobody watched, but Musk claimed 300,000,000 people did while Tucker’s old time slot is filled by a non-entity drawing in the same kind of ratings.
There wasn’t a lot of new news in this book, and for those such as me, who scour the news as I anxiously watch the demise of the TFG (the former guy) and shout as loudly as possibly to anyone who will listen that Trump, his followers and Fox are a fascist monster the new items in this book were far and few between. Overall Stelter now gets that we need to warn Americans against the fascists at Fox, their viewers and Trump.
Stelter gets it that the Maga mob controls Fox more than Fox controls them. Tucker Carlson was a special pernicious scab on America and his racism, hate, and incoherence reflected that of his viewers. Stelter mentioned that only 1/100th of Fox’s audience is made up of Black Americans, and that Tucker thought the Dominion lawsuit jury was made up of low IQ members since 5 of them were Black, and Stelter even refers to Fox as “white wing”. Tucker is a willful racist fascist agitator spouting substance free conspiracy incoherences, those who work at Fox are too; Trump is as dangerous as Hitler, and if he wins there will never be a need to have books like this one. Thank you, Brian Stelter, for seeing reality for the way it is and warning against the scum at Fox and the viewers who shape Fox.
I re-read my review for “Hoax” because I wanted to be reminded what I thought about before the run-up to the previous election. Stelter in those days didn’t get it and that made me mad at his book, he thought the evil that resided within Fox and their viewers were worth trying to convert. They are not: Fox viewers mean the things they say in the comment sections of Breitbart and their white wing sites . They do not share the same reality that I experience and Fox gives them what they want, and they give Fox what they want through ratings that equate to their bottom line of profits. The system sucks, but Stelter is shouting a warning and kudos to him for that. Tolerance is not required to those who want to enslave you, and Fox, Trump, and their fascist viewers are not deserving of tolerance.
Since this book is recent and current to today, Stelter gets to talk about Fox opinion presenters and its viewers previous hate of Homosexuals, Transgender, Woke-nonsense, abortion madness, Critical Race Theory, Dr Seus books, wars on Christmas, and many of their other hate agendas and goofy conspiracy theories. One must have a nightly line-up of fact free news with a special blend of hate opinions spouted by presenters who should just “shut up and dribble” to keep track of the lies: Trump won the election, voting machines are rigged, psychics from the future saw the fraud (Maria Bartiromo comes off as an especially willfully ignorantly psychotic), and so on.
Stelter said Trump’s delusion was embraced as a Bartiromo initiated delusion, I would say that Bartiromo was willfully in on the con and when a person’s paycheck is threatened by telling the truth, the falsehood will be embraced as truth since greed trumps goodness when it comes to a paycheck; Bartiromo willfully created the Dominion voting machine fabrication and then Trump took the delusion and made it his own, and in the process Bartiromo increased her relevance and her paycheck by 10 fold while the MAGA mob embraced the lie since it made them feel good, and as Fox tried to backtrack on the lie the MAGA Fox watchers switched off Fox in mass and switched on Newsmax thus causing Fox to embrace the delusion all the more because their viewers demanded it, a vicious circle motivated by even more money for the one who could tell the biggest lie that the viewers craved.
Fox was right to fire Tucker Carlson. He needed them more than they needed him, and I’m certain none of the suits at Fox regret that decision today. Today Carlson is as relevant as Father Coughlin was when he lost his radio show, and more importantly for Fox they have neutered all dissent within their own ranks without missing a beat. Without that platform Carlson is a non-entity. X (formerly known as twitter) is a place where relevancy goes to disappear into the ether of the outer edges of outer space and Carlson was last seen being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly and supposedly having some kind of platform where he interviewed Trump that nobody watched, but Musk claimed 300,000,000 people did while Tucker’s old time slot is filled by a non-entity drawing in the same kind of ratings.
There wasn’t a lot of new news in this book, and for those such as me, who scour the news as I anxiously watch the demise of the TFG (the former guy) and shout as loudly as possibly to anyone who will listen that Trump, his followers and Fox are a fascist monster the new items in this book were far and few between. Overall Stelter now gets that we need to warn Americans against the fascists at Fox, their viewers and Trump.
November 17, 2023
Fox News, a cesspool full of bullsh*t and human t*rds. As a non American looking in I'm shocked that your system of thinking, morals, humanity, is so broken, warped and sickeningly damaged. The author has done a great job of scraping through the sewerage to see if there's anything worth saving, I think not. Land of the free? Please read this book, especially if you're non American. (Audiobook)
December 18, 2023
Though this was well written and researched, it felt extremely repetitive after a while. The subject matter is frustrating, which I knew it would be, of course, so the book just felt about a third too long. I do think it's interesting, just a bit too much.
November 17, 2023
I think I follow the news a bit too closely for this to feel like anything new or surprising, but for those who aren’t being mean to themselves by keeping close eye on political and media news, I do think it might be pretty eye opening and shocking.
November 16, 2023
Really interesting look at the infighting, collusion and flip flopping that makes up the sad cast of faux news.
Just knowing they promoted the Big Lie may be enough for some, but as a non American who's never watched Tucker, Hannity et al I found the in-depth look at the propaganda, the email and text exchanges between key players (which I guess the author got from discovery in the Dominion case?), as well as the tactics they used to justify/push their agenda really telling.
Just knowing they promoted the Big Lie may be enough for some, but as a non American who's never watched Tucker, Hannity et al I found the in-depth look at the propaganda, the email and text exchanges between key players (which I guess the author got from discovery in the Dominion case?), as well as the tactics they used to justify/push their agenda really telling.
November 22, 2023
Even if you, like me, closely followed the machinations of Fox News in recent years, you will still learn a lot from “Network of Lies.”
Brian Stelter indicts Fox with its own words. Quoting extensively from the texts and emails sent by Fox officials revealed as part of the libel lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, Stelter shows the lies and hypocrisy that came from not only popular hosts - especially Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo - but from top brass - CEO Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and news president Suzanne Scott.
While many of these internal messages are already well known, Stelter reveals many more. What the book shows is a network that fears its own viewers. After Fox was the first network to call the key state of Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, viewers fled the network. Trying to lure those viewers back, Fox endorsed the election lies, which led to the lawsuit filed by Dominion that was settled for close to $800 million (a lawsuit filed by another voting tech company is still pending).
My jaw dropped when reading how Bartiromo used a bizarre email from a viewer to first air the unverified allegations against Dominion. How she still has a job is beyond me.
I felt sorry for those lonely Fox News staffers who tried to push back against the lies, only to be subjected to nasty notes from Scott and others accusing them of not “respecting the audience.”
Brian Stelter indicts Fox with its own words. Quoting extensively from the texts and emails sent by Fox officials revealed as part of the libel lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, Stelter shows the lies and hypocrisy that came from not only popular hosts - especially Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo - but from top brass - CEO Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and news president Suzanne Scott.
While many of these internal messages are already well known, Stelter reveals many more. What the book shows is a network that fears its own viewers. After Fox was the first network to call the key state of Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, viewers fled the network. Trying to lure those viewers back, Fox endorsed the election lies, which led to the lawsuit filed by Dominion that was settled for close to $800 million (a lawsuit filed by another voting tech company is still pending).
My jaw dropped when reading how Bartiromo used a bizarre email from a viewer to first air the unverified allegations against Dominion. How she still has a job is beyond me.
I felt sorry for those lonely Fox News staffers who tried to push back against the lies, only to be subjected to nasty notes from Scott and others accusing them of not “respecting the audience.”
November 16, 2023
One imagines the author placing this book before a devout Fox News viewer, going through it page by page, pointing out the numerous idiocies and contradictions and excessive sleazy behavior, then saying, "See? See? This whole network sits on a throne of lies!!" Then imagining the viewer saying, "Yeah, so what?," then turning back to Fox. The rapidly burgeoning industry of bashing Fox means nothing. Those who hate the network will continue to believe, while those who love it for giving comfort to their deepest beliefs will be unswayed. You wish it would mean something, but it doesn't anymore. In that context, this subject has been covered better in other books, including one from this author.
December 2, 2023
This is one of the scariest books I read this year. If only it was historical fiction or history of less recent past … and with a sequel I’m definitely not looking forward too.
“No single investment or indictment or congressional committee could cure what ailed American politics. No single lawsuit or exposé or petition could heal its sickened information streams. But, all together, in combination, the steps toward accountability were powerful and persuasive. All across America new ideas and initiatives were being imagined and enacted in a widely shared determination to uproot the network of lies with seeds of truth. Could Americans of all ages and backgrounds and beliefs come together to speak more loudly than the liars? Yes, they could, and so they did, knowing that fictions aided autocracy while facts nourished democracy. The network of reality will, in the end, triumph.”
“We are undergoing a stress test of American democracy, the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared political reality. Can we achieve accountability for assaults on democracy? What forms can accountability take? That’s what this book is about.”
“Networks can broadcast for twenty-five years but be defined by just five of the days. “
“Larry King once said that if he had a motto, it would be “I never learned a thing while I was talking.””
“No single investment or indictment or congressional committee could cure what ailed American politics. No single lawsuit or exposé or petition could heal its sickened information streams. But, all together, in combination, the steps toward accountability were powerful and persuasive. All across America new ideas and initiatives were being imagined and enacted in a widely shared determination to uproot the network of lies with seeds of truth. Could Americans of all ages and backgrounds and beliefs come together to speak more loudly than the liars? Yes, they could, and so they did, knowing that fictions aided autocracy while facts nourished democracy. The network of reality will, in the end, triumph.”
“We are undergoing a stress test of American democracy, the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared political reality. Can we achieve accountability for assaults on democracy? What forms can accountability take? That’s what this book is about.”
“Networks can broadcast for twenty-five years but be defined by just five of the days. “
“Larry King once said that if he had a motto, it would be “I never learned a thing while I was talking.””
December 9, 2023
Good book. Some of it is a rehash from the final chapters of “Hoax,” and in some respects this book is an extension of that first one, with lots of new information that came out after “Hoax” was published. The author should consider combining the two books into a single volume, definitive edition, since it is the same story. I thought I already knew everything there was to know about the Fox-Trump affair, but one thing was surprising. The author points out that Trump’s first indictment triggered the end of his “soft ban” on Fox, and the network started giving him airtime again by embracing his new status as a victim. The author does not make the connection, but could it be that Fox’s re-embrace of Trump explains why his polls numbers went up after the indictments? I don’t know the answer, but definitely food for thought.
December 15, 2023
Journalists, real journalists, have been saying Fox was dangerous from the start. How do I know this?
I grew up in a home with a journalist educator, a college professor of communications, radio, television, film and journalism. I was lucky to have this kind of upbringing because I always search for the facts. And the fact is, this book was great, though I think he might have missed a few things of great importance that are covered in other places, but reenforcement is important to get through thick heads.
I recommend you find a little known indi-documentary called OutFoxed, I believe it came out either in ‘08 or just before.
If you want to be armed with facts and find a way to debunk the lies of Fox, get this book.
I grew up in a home with a journalist educator, a college professor of communications, radio, television, film and journalism. I was lucky to have this kind of upbringing because I always search for the facts. And the fact is, this book was great, though I think he might have missed a few things of great importance that are covered in other places, but reenforcement is important to get through thick heads.
I recommend you find a little known indi-documentary called OutFoxed, I believe it came out either in ‘08 or just before.
If you want to be armed with facts and find a way to debunk the lies of Fox, get this book.
November 25, 2023
Excellent book. If you watched Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources," you know how tirelessly he huts for the truth, and this VERY deftly indicates how Fox News went off the deep end to keep Donald Trump happy and how badly that backfired on them. The best part is the Dominion trial in which Rupert Murdoch tried to act dumb until it turned out he couldn't, and the frightening part is how many far-right news vehicles sprang up to cover the audience that thought Fox News was getting squishily centrist. None of them have gone away yet. I'm not looking forward to the next presidential election now.
November 15, 2023
My headline is not a shot at Mr. Stelter or his book. It is simply an honest assessment about a book that simply didn't need to be written. If, by November 2024, there is anyone in the United States of America who didn't know that Fox News lied and promoted the Big Lie (about the 2020 election), then that person must have been on the International Space Station. There is just nothing ground-breaking or newsworthy that would compel someone to spend $30 on a book that only reiterates facts that have been known since 2021 (or earlier)
November 30, 2023
A lot more of Tucker C. than I was looking for!
A deep dive into the weeds that were and are Fox News. Fascinating to actually read the Fox emails that many people never read and ones that certainly no Fox viewer ever was exposed to. The idea that virtually every host knew very well that the election was fair and that Dominion had done nothing wrong is really amazing. How could anyone trust a company who admitted to stroking the heads of their viewers and giving them what they want, regardless of they are peddling lies or not.
The book does go a bit far with some snide remarks about Tucker Carlson. Most of the remarks were certainly earned by the bow tie, but it seemed to bog down the read and go slightly overboard with the enthusiasm and vigor in detailing the demise of Carlson and somewhat detracts from the main thrust of the piece that it was Fox as a whole that systematically lied for ratings, not just Tuck.
A deep dive into the weeds that were and are Fox News. Fascinating to actually read the Fox emails that many people never read and ones that certainly no Fox viewer ever was exposed to. The idea that virtually every host knew very well that the election was fair and that Dominion had done nothing wrong is really amazing. How could anyone trust a company who admitted to stroking the heads of their viewers and giving them what they want, regardless of they are peddling lies or not.
The book does go a bit far with some snide remarks about Tucker Carlson. Most of the remarks were certainly earned by the bow tie, but it seemed to bog down the read and go slightly overboard with the enthusiasm and vigor in detailing the demise of Carlson and somewhat detracts from the main thrust of the piece that it was Fox as a whole that systematically lied for ratings, not just Tuck.
December 4, 2023
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December 9, 2023
This is a book with significant strengths and equal weaknesses. Stetler has done enormous research and waded through the trove of Fox emails to paint a truly disturbing picture of a network so afraid of the audience it created that it lied repeatedly about election fraud they knew to be false.
Stetler can be shrill, and he isn’t a great writer, but boy howdy does he have a story to tell. The hypocrisy of Fox hosts when they knew better will stay with you for a long long time.
I hope lots of people read it. It’s important.
Stetler can be shrill, and he isn’t a great writer, but boy howdy does he have a story to tell. The hypocrisy of Fox hosts when they knew better will stay with you for a long long time.
I hope lots of people read it. It’s important.
December 11, 2023
Somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4 for me! A really good summary of the lie-making machine at Fox with some great reporting pieced together from insider texts, documents and interviews. Felt a little repetitive at times but that almost feels like the point in underscoring how ubiquitous and ingrained these tactics are at Fox.
December 18, 2023
I feel a bit disappointed at this read, there were not much new information or analysis of this story. I felt that i had read this already in several books. With all stelters information and sources I thought it would be a book that made me think and see the subject from different angles and find some kind of answers. Mostly it left me with a disappointing experience.
November 27, 2023
This is a must read for anyone concerned about this moment in our democracy. Expertly researched, tightly written, it depicts an extraordinarily immoral corporate power willing to manipulate the public with lies, despite claiming to be journalists.
December 2, 2023
Solid reporting on journalism as entertainment
I wasn’t a fan of Stelter until I read this book. He does a great job of weaving a biography of Tucker Carlson into the drama behind the Dominion lawsuit. His conclusion about Tucker’s firing by the Fox Network seems spot on.
I wasn’t a fan of Stelter until I read this book. He does a great job of weaving a biography of Tucker Carlson into the drama behind the Dominion lawsuit. His conclusion about Tucker’s firing by the Fox Network seems spot on.
December 5, 2023
No surprises but well researched detail of the messy chaos behind an unethical propaganda machine. All news outlets are bias and self-serving, however, this narrative shares the story behind the scenes and headlines.
December 5, 2023
It pulls together all of the threads of the Fox News "coverage" of Donald Trump and particularly of the 2020 post-election nightmare. Well-written and depressing - even more so because people who really need to be exposed to this information are likely to ignore it.
December 16, 2023
Not much news from this newsman
If you followed this story in the NYTimes, there is little here that you don’t already know. And the animus from the author is palpable and detrimental to the actual facts.
If you followed this story in the NYTimes, there is little here that you don’t already know. And the animus from the author is palpable and detrimental to the actual facts.
November 17, 2023
Very good, although I could have done with fewer parenthetical comments from the author.
November 18, 2023
While I'm certainly no fan of Fox News, I despise Stelter and his disgusting Far Left, fascist ideology ten times worse. I hope Stelter burns. Have a nice day.
November 24, 2023
If you watch Fox News and are a Trump fan, you will hate this book. It exposes in Fox's own words how they perpetuated The Big Lie just to keep their audience. Sad!
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November 29, 2023What we already knew - Fox lies - but in a lot of detail.
December 8, 2023
Five stars with an admission that I am definitely in the target audience for this book, which I listened to as an audiobook.
December 9, 2023
Rating is not based on my political views but only on the fact that the book is poorly written and comes off as a personal vendetta..
December 17, 2023
A great read..
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