Hoax
Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description: ix, 350 pages ; 24 cm
The CNN correspondent examines Donald Trump's controversial relationship with the Fox News network and discusses the tensions at the network between Trump loyalists and the few remaining journalists.
Contents:
Prologue. "Batshit crazy" ; "We surrendered" ; "Profit machine" ; " Unforgivable" -- The creation. "Everybody can be bought" ; "An invisible hand" ; "Mayor of Crazytown" ; "People don't care if it's right" ; "Planet Trump" ; "I thought you were my friend" -- The candidate. "He's out of control" ; "Me too" ; "Business suicide" ; "If I stay here, I'm going to get cancer" ; "I'm a newsman" ; "Is this really happening?" ; "Loyalty is good" -- The commander. "Self-brainwashing" ; "The crowds were much, much smaller" ; "You're getting much better" ; "The bandwagon" ; "I want the O'Reilly lighting" ; "It's going to be a catastrophe" ; "You should be talking to Fox, okay?" ; "Stench" ; "Tell Sean to knock it off" ; "Wardrobe enforcer" ; "It's all so complicated" ; "Anti-journalism" ; "Why all these lies?" ; "Willing to be accomplices" ; "Out of bounds" ; "We print money in the basement" -- The cult. "Fake freak" ; "Clueless" ; "Shadow chief of staff" ; "Desperate" ; "Executive Time" ; "Don't be a baby" ; "No one can stop us" ; "Fix this" ; "Prostitutes" -- The control freak. "Hate-for-profit racket" ; "Iceberg problem" ; "They'll fire me" ; "The times ahead will test all of us" ; "They owe you an apology" ; "What do you think?" ; "You're going to be called on, Sean" ; "The truth will always matter" -- The crisis. "Complicit" ; "Trump will never forgive you" ; "Democracy at risk" ; "Heat kills this virus" ; "Don't rock the boat" ; "The flu is so much worse" ; "Hazardous to our viewers" ; "No reason to go backwards" ; "I've been watching you" ; "Looking for a new outlet" -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Fox News.
Television and politics -- United States.
Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United States.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects -- United States.
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Fox News.
Television and politics -- United States.
Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United States.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects -- United States.
ISBN:
9781982142445
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.