Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter

Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

by Brian Stelter

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Fox News used the word hoax more than 900 times in the first half of 2020. Stelter's case, built on interviews with more than 250 current and former Fox staff, is that what you saw on the network and what Trump tweeted fed each other in a closed loop, and the truth lost out.

Core ideas
  • Hosts without editors: Opinion hosts like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham worked with little editorial oversight while shaping and echoing the president's message.
  • Not believing it: One Fox producer says the network doesn't believe what it tells viewers to believe, and some journalists left over its direction.
  • Campaign to pandemic: The loop runs from the 2016 campaign through the early-2020 impeachment to Fox's coverage of COVID-19.
Published2020
Pages350
ISBN9781982142469
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