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

This book will have even more value to the reader of 2040 than it does today, people--we can only hope--who have not experienced this attack on journalism first-hand. Anyone reading this today has lived through the horrors perpetrated by the Trump-Fox propaganda alliance and is only inflicting self-punishment by reliving them with Stelter as guide. My take-away from his analysis is that ultimately it is the conservative American viewer who is most to blame for what happened to our democracy. They demanded it, approved of it, and clamored for more. Fox was only too happy to accommodate while watching their ratings and their coffers swell. Viewers rejected any attempt at honest journalism in the Fox universe, such as those made by Shep Smith and Neil Cavuto, in favor of the daily hate-filled diatribes of commentators like Hannity and Tucker Carlson. I wish Stelter's writing style were a little more sophisticated, but he cannot be faulted for his research and exposition.