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

por Brian Stelter

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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.
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Although it only came out about 18 months ago, it already seems outdated. We've heard and read SO MUCH about Fox and Trump that it gets boring to read it yet again. I stopped reading about 50% through. I simply did not want to read the same things again. Trump is a horror show. Fox News enabled him and those folks at Fox such as Hannity, Tucker, Laura, Bill, etc. were all in on it and did everything they could to help promote Trump's lies. I don't need 300 pages to know this. ( )
  BenM2023 | Nov 22, 2023 |
Great book and such an interesting read from the very beginning until the very end. Glad someone is calling it how it is. Best Fox-related book that I've ever ready by far. ( )
  booksonbooksonbooks | Jul 24, 2023 |
Great book and such an interesting read from the very beginning until the very end. Glad someone is calling it how it is. Best Fox-related book that I've ever ready by far. ( )
  booksonbooksonbooks | Jul 24, 2023 |
“This “do as I say, not as I do” attitude was one of the first things the producer noticed when he started working for F& F. Anti-marijuana segments were a layup on the show. Then he headed to a house party with colleagues for the first time and saw half the staff out on the balcony getting high. “Okay,” he said to himself, “so we don’t really believe all this stuff. We just tell other people to believe it.”
― Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

My review:

Any Political junkie really needs to put this one at the top of their list. Brian Stelter has written an excellent book, filled with facts....the last thing Fox News would know anything about.

Within this book Stelter tells the tale of how American's unfair and dishonest news station came to be. And how they went from a lean right" News station to perpetuating the biggest hoax on the American People.

In Hoax, we learn about the toxic but profitable relationship between Trump and the station. How they came to rely on each other to the point that even many journalists at Fox either resigned or were forced out.

We learn about many of the top hosts there and how they got their start and why they became who they are. It's a pretty good length book..neither to long nor to short and Stelter has so many sources including people at Fox...past and present.

But most of all the use of Propaganda as a replacement for Real News is explored. The writer makes the connection between the Fox way of defining News.....often with use of the word "Hoax" or
"Fake News", to Soviet Disinformation and Information wars.

Apparently the word "Hoax" was used around 900 times in Fox in just a six month period.

And the motivations of the people involved....some people's ever growing horror as they realized that their network had created a monster that was loose and to big to reign back in was fascinating to read about. Contrary to what many might think, there are good people at Fox who do have a conscience who either got out or were pushed out or are still there trying and fighting to report News and not Hoaxes.

Anger and outrage....we are the put upon people is their weapon of choice. From imaginary caravans coming to kill us all, to wars on Christmas, to our very way of life being in peril....Fox knows that anger sells and being in a perpetual state of rage snags viewers.

And what of the good ones..like Shepard Smith? Chris Wallace? Well...you will read about them too. I do think this is an important book, in that it really lays before us the myth of Fox News and rips away this company's foundation to expose one big, For profit, money making machine.

Money is at the root of all of it....everything is ratings.....as the people in charge regularly betray their viewers, their employees and each other.

I really enjoyed this book and was up late into the night yesterday reading it. Much did not surprise me. I have tried to watch Fox in the past and still occasionally watch Chris Wallace although it's getting harder. This network exists in an alternative reality and in this book you will find out why.

Did you know that Fox News is not even labeled news? They are considered "entertainment". I don't think their entertainment. I think as I read in Hoax, I agree with Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham's brother who says that they are indeed "the killing channel".

The only thing I wish were different is that he'd have released this book AFTER the 2020 election. I'd have liked to know the reaction of many at Fox to Joe Biden winning. I'd have also liked to know more about the decision to call Arizona early on for Biden, and most of all how they plan to run their network in the future.

I'd like to think they will focus on becoming more of an honest network that focuses less on Hoaxes and more on straight up news but based on this book and from what I already know, I'd say the chances of that are akin to my winning the lottery. 4.5 stars for an engaging, well written and fascinating book. ( )
  Thebeautifulsea | Aug 4, 2022 |
This is a really fucked up read ... we all ... well ... everyone who is not brainwashed know how sickening the relationship is between Trump & Fox. This spells it out. Plain and simple. ( )
  donhazelwood | Mar 12, 2022 |
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Drawing on three years of interviews with more than 140 staffers at Fox and 180 former staffers and other knowledgeable sources, Stelter describes how the network evolved from a serious news operation with a decidedly conservative perspective to what he asserts is essentially “state-supported TV.” ...Fox, Stelter writes, “is an addictive substance. For its biggest fans, Fox is an identity. Almost a way of life.” And the biggest fan of all, though sometimes a mercurial one, is the real estate developer from Queens who rode a wave of resentment to the White House and desperately relies on Fox for inspiration and validation.... Beyond elevating an extreme form of tribalism, Stelter shows, Fox News accelerates and amplifies Trump’s denigration of truth, disregard for facts and manipulation of a pliable public into believing an alternative reality.... For a book that purports to document how a dereliction of journalistic duty can cost lives and damage institutions, “Hoax” too often relies on assertions, blind quotes and unverified accounts. In several instances, Stelter quotes an unnamed source making an accusation that ought to have been fact-checked or simply omitted. It would have strengthened his important argument, especially given his open feuds with Ailes (who died in 2017) and Hannity.... “The Trump age was really the ‘hoax’ age,” Stelter concludes. The question is whether he is correct in putting that observation in the past tense.
adicionada por Lemeritus | editarWashington Post, Jane Eisner (sítio Web pago) (Aug 25, 2020)
 
CNN media correspondent Stelter (Top of the Morning) documents the "feedback loop" between Fox News and the Trump administration in this damning if somewhat uneven account. Drawing on interviews with more than 300 mostly anonymous sources, Stelter portrays the network as rife with internal divisions between its news and opinion departments (though the latter nearly always wins) and beholden to the rabid fan base it has cultivated over a series of "turns to the right" since 9/11....But close observers of the news will be familiar with Stelter's larger points, and he doesn't offer much insight into why Fox News viewers are so devoted to the network. Still, this is a copious and alarming catalogue of the damage the "Trump-Fox merger" has done to American journalism and politics.
adicionada por Lemeritus | editarPublisher's Weekly (Aug 25, 2020)
 
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.... 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.... Stelter also glosses over the fact that CNN is guilty of its own, Fox-lite version of partisan pandering. Certain hosts tend to ask leading, left-leaning questions. Everyone is incentivized to say things that go viral; hyperbole trumps nuance. This is not new. Tucker Carlson — who has emerged as Fox’s leading promoter of racist lies — rose to notoriety as a flamethrower on the CNN show “Crossfire.” ...To be clear, there is no equivalence between the occasionally inaccurate and misleading “liberal media,” which generally owns up to its mistakes, and the highly productive factory of falsehoods at Fox. But in a polarized America, cable news networks reflect and to varying degrees contribute to that polarization.... My biggest disappointment with “Hoax” is that Stelter doesn’t unpack the greatest mystery of Fox’s success: Why is the channel’s unbridled demagogy so enticing? Do viewers realize they’re getting played? Do they care? ... Readers are left to look down on Fox’s millions of loyalists as gullible members of an extremist cult. It is just the sort of easy-to-digest but unnuanced conclusion that would play well on cable news.
adicionada por Lemeritus | editarNew York Times, David Enrich (sítio Web pago) (Aug 23, 2020)
 

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