Fox is "a Propaganda Operation." w/CNN's Brian Stelter
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Brian Stelter is the host of CNN's Reliable Sources and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. It's now out in paperback with tons if additional reporting about Fox on election night, the Big Lie and the January 6th Insurrection. What he tells Bill about Fox, the Murdochs, Tucker Carlson and the GOP should scare you. You can order the book here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:10.6 | Well, as we know, unlike any former president, Donald Trump's not content with sitting on the sidelines. |
| 0:16.6 | He's still out there almost every day, repeating the big lie that he won the last election |
| 0:21.9 | and attacking anybody who dares disagree with him on anything. |
| 0:27.7 | But of course, Trump's not alone. |
| 0:30.0 | Even with access to Twitter blocked, Trump is still able to get his message out with the Trump |
| 0:36.4 | TV network, otherwise known as Fox News. |
| 0:40.4 | Once the TV arm of the Trump White House, Fox is now the TV arm of the Trump post presidency, |
| 0:46.8 | happy to help spread his lives about the election and about the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:52.3 | Last fall, we interviewed Brian Stelter, |
| 0:55.1 | host of CNN's reliable sources |
| 0:57.1 | on his new book about Fox News and Donald Trump |
| 1:00.4 | called Hoax. |
| 1:02.4 | Donald Trump, Fox News and the dangerous distortion of truth. |
| 1:07.5 | Well, now the paperback of hoax is out |
| 1:09.9 | with lots of news stuff and new reporting about Fox News post-Trump and about a couple of new networks that are even more right-wing than Fox, believe it or not. |
| 1:21.6 | So Brian Stelter's back with us today with the latest in the crazy right-wing media world. Brian Stelter, welcome back to the |
| 1:31.6 | Bill Press pod. Good to have you back and congratulations on the paperback edition of hoax, |
| 1:37.7 | Donald Trump, Fox News, and the dangerous distortion of truth with lots of good stuff in it, new stuff. |
| 1:44.9 | Thank you. It's great to be here. Thanks. |
| 1:47.4 | So, Brian, I want to start with a tweet I saw just a couple of days ago. I think it might have |
| 1:52.5 | been echoing something you said with Chris Cuomo that you don't believe January 6 and the insurrection, the attack on the Capitol would have happened, |
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