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Network of Lies

The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for America

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Network of Lies

By: Brian Stelter
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Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections—from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.

The ongoing criminal trials of Donald Trump are also a trial for the nation he once led. We are undergoing a stress test of American democracy, the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared political reality. Can we achieve accountability for premeditated assaults on democracy and what forms should accountability take?

In Network of Lies, New York Times bestselling author Brian Stelter answers these questions by weaving together private texts, unpublished emails, depositions, and other primary sources to tell the chilling story of Trump’s alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, and the right-wing media’s mission to put him back in office in 2024.

Trump couldn’t have convinced millions of Americans of the Big Lie without Fox News. From the moment Joe Biden became president-elect in 2020, Fox hosts fueled a fire of misinformation and violence by spreading Trump’s tales of election fraud and suppressing the truth. Come January, Sean Hannity insisted Trump needed to stop listening to “crazy people” who swore he could stay in power, but it was too late—thousands of Trump’s deluded followers had stormed the Capitol and Trump operatives had breached Dominion Voting Systems’ voting machines in Georgia.

Now, the 2020 lies are at the center of numerous indictments and his reelection campaign, but Trump is not the only one under fire. The once-untouchable Rupert Murdoch has been held accountable. Dominion’s legal war, chronicled in-depth for the first time here, revealed that the ninety-two-year-old Fox chairman knew Trump’s lies were dangerous but he allowed the lies to fill Fox’s airwaves because, as his “pain sponge” Suzanne Scott admitted, telling the truth was “bad for business.”

Network of Lies goes inside the chat rooms, board rooms, and court rooms where the pro-Trump media’s greed and selfishness were exposed. Featuring Stelter’s “thorough and damning” (The New York Times) investigative prowess and direct quotations so shocking they comes across like fiction, Network of Lies is the definitive origin story of Trump’s attempt to tear down the guardrails of American democracy, and an urgent plea to learn from past mistakes as we head into 2024’s pivotal presidential election.

©2023 Brian Stelter (P)2023 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Great book by a trusted journalist , the truth about the destruction Fox committed everyday to a gullible audience

Most comprehensive news about fox I have ever read

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Well researched…now Americans have to come out and vote. Trump and the GOP are existential threats to democracy.

Sad but true tale

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Liked it all. Wish we'd have gone after FOX News once we had realized what Murdock and the far-right was really up to. Infiltrating Americans minds with authoritarian propaganda.

Its about time.

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He was thorough and provided specific emails and texts and a clearly laid out explanation of the lies that are told on Fox.

Fact based book

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Brian Stelter worked on national television for more than a decade, and knows exactly how all of it fits together. Although he spent most of his broadcast career at CNN, he seems to know everyone at Fox News as well. That gives him the ability to really give the reader a high-resolution view of the corruption, brazen distortion of facts, and downright buffoonery that is Fox News. 

Stelter investigates the upside-down world that is Fox News

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As usual Stelter pulls no punches and lays out the facts. Excellent analysis, and informed opinion.

Insiders view of the propaganda machine.

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I don’t generally review and I’m a big audible listener. I’d read this one, not listen. I think the quality of the information is lost in Stetler’s delivery. Very interesting reporting, good reporting. But tone detracts.

I’d read it instead of listening

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I'm a big fan of Brian Stelter and loved his previous book "Hoax." This book is a sequel to that one, but also goes further in discussing the legal problems (still ongoing) of Fox News. My one wish, however, is that Brian would get someone else to read his next one -- or read it in a more serious tone. He has a playful and overly emotional voice and it really takes away from the seriousness of the story. With a subject such as this, the book tells the story in seriousness. Mr. Stelter, however, detracts from that with his voice. Still, it's worth getting and hearing because the subject is so important. I will look for the ebook on sale and get it then.

Love the book, but not the narrator

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I disliked how often unnamed sources were used, though understand why... I liked everything else!

well presented

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I like the fact that the book lays out honestly how the right wing media exacerbates, and exploits the fears, anxieties and grievances of minority of white people within its faction for the sole purpose of pushing a revisionist agenda to a shameful error gone by.

Truth about “Righ Wing Media “

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