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randyrasa's review against another edition
3.0
A detail-rich and thoroughly-reported dissection of the codependent relationship between Fox News and the Trump presidency, with anecdotes aplenty that demonstrate the substantial damage inflicted on the nation. It was a failure of leadership, a failure of morality, and a failure of professionalism all around. The book often delves deep into inside-baseball details that are important, but are of less interest to those not in the biz.
lyndseyreader's review
4.0
Horrifying, as you would expect, but interesting to see the timeline of the developing relationship between Trump and Fox. If you can stomach it, I think it's a pretty important accounting.
I listened to this on audiobook and the author was an engaging narrator.
I listened to this on audiobook and the author was an engaging narrator.
saara_ilona_muu's review
4.0
We don't have cable, and we don't pay extra for the Fox package, so a lot of the content of this book was news, to me. Really disturbing, and very well researched. The only reason I didn't give it full marks is that it's pretty repetitive, but maybe that's the point. Round and round we go in this feedback loop.
disasterchick's review
3.0
This book is focused on Fox News and the relationship it has with the Trump as a person and his presidency. It doesn't take a stable genius to recognize that Fox reports on the Trump White House differently than the other networks, which makes me laugh when I see friends posting on Facebook stories they find that no other news source is covering. As a citizen it is troubling when approximately one half of the nation accepts one set of facts and approximately the other half of the nation accepts a different set of facts. There is the phrase "wag the dog" and honestly I'm not sure which is the dog and which is the tail when it comes to Trump and Fox News. It was good to get a more inside look on why anchors such as Megyn Kelly, Shepard Smith, Greta Van Susteren, and Kimberly Guilfoyle have left the station. Whether you get your news from Fox, CNN, MSNBC - go ahead and listen to what they say, listen to the source and try to get more than just the soundbites uses, and watch the sources actions - this should tell you what news is real and what is fake.
interpreterchangling's review
4.0
Compelling and informative... very easy to read and infuriating. Some newer information as well
swmproblems's review
5.0
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.
verityw's review
4.0
If you haven't really watched much Fox News, but have heard a lot about it, this will expand your knowledge of the channel, but it also has lots of inside sources and information about that's happening behind the scenes and how it fits into the right in the US and the Republican party. The author works for CNN, so that needs to be bourn in mind, but he is very well placed and has been taking tips and making contacts across the news including at Fox from long before his CNN tenure. I'm not sure it's going to make you feel better about the world, but it will help you understand what's happening in the US a little better.