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There’s a new book out today about Fox News. Poynter’s senior media writer Tom Jones got to talk to one especially reliable source about it — its author and former CNN host, Brian Stelter.
“Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy” recaps the network’s relationship with former President Donald Trump, focusing this time on the "Big Lie,” the conspiracy that the election was stolen from Trump.
Jones praised Stelter’s expertise on Fox — this is his second deeply researched book on the network — and noted that few journalists have devoted as much time to studying the Dominion lawsuit’s many documents and filings.
In a Q&A this week, Jones asked Stelter if Fox News or its audience was driving coverage.
“The audience is in charge, more than ever before, and mainly in detrimental ways,” Stelter explained via email. “In the book, I quote a Trump White House veteran saying, of Fox, ‘They are servants. They simply serve the audience.’ This person reminded me that Fox was rather dismissive of Trump in the summer of 2015, but ‘the second they noticed that Republican voters liked him, they embraced him.’ The pattern repeated itself after Jan. 6: Rupert deemed Trump a ‘non person’ and Fox forgot he existed for a while, but once the GOP base gravitated to conspiracy theories that exonerated Trump for the riot, he regained control of the party and, eventually, of Fox.”
You can read the rest of the interview here, or subscribe to Jones’ newsletter, The Poynter Report, to get his insights in your inbox every weekday morning.
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