Brian Stelter Explores White House’s ‘Unprecedented Alliance’ With Fox News in ‘Hoax’

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

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To CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, President Trump’s ongoing, mutually-reinforcing alliance with Fox News gained permanent traction in January 2017. That was when Trump, enraged over CNN’s coverage of his sparse inauguration crowd, found refuge in sympathetic reporting from Fox News. Stelter says from that point on, the network became Trump’s “humiliation-free zone” and his chief source of information. As detailed in Stelter’s new book “Hoax,” it also marked the start of an alliance in which Trump and Fox worked together to cast the rest of American media as “fake.” Stelter joins us to talk about what he uncovered about the evolution and impact of the Trump-Fox partnership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.6	Coming up, Brian Stelter joins us.
1:26.6	He's CNN's chief media correspondent, host of the
1:29.1	network's Reliable Sources Program, and the author of Hoax, which unpacks the origins, evolution,
1:34.6	and impact of Donald Trump's relationship with Fox News, a mutually beneficial alliance that he says
1:40.6	has worked to push an extreme right-wing agenda while casting all news sources but Fox as fraudulent.
1:46.7	We'll talk about the alliance's impact on White House policy
1:49.2	and the spread of misinformation,
1:51.2	and we'll also get Stelter's take on the latest political news,
1:54.0	including Trump's comments about disparaging U.S. vets
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