Network of Lies with Brian Stelter.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Brian Stelter is one of the top reporters covering the media. After covering media for The New York Times, he had a long career at CNN on the same beat as host of the weekly show, Reliable Services. He is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair. And the author of the new book, Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy. You can buy a copy here. Bill and Brian explore the close relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump. Stelter discusses how Fox News hosts coordinated with White House officials to spread false information about voter fraud after the 2020 election. He also highlights the extent to which Fox News and Trump are intertwined, and how this relationship has influenced the network's coverage. Stelter argues that Fox News has become an extreme and anti-democratic outlet, and that the media as a whole is struggling to cover a radicalized Republican Party. He also touches on the coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the challenges faced by journalists reporting from the region.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press 5. You know, the more we see of Donald Trump, |
| 0:12.3 | the more we can't believe, one, that this guy was ever elected in the first place, two, that he still won't admit he lost a 2020 election. |
| 0:20.7 | Three, that he incited an armed |
| 0:23.2 | mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. And four, that despite all of his baggage, he's still the frontrunner |
| 0:30.2 | for the Republican nomination in 2024. But one thing for sure, he could not have done any of that without his partner in crime and his biggest booster and supporters. |
| 0:43.3 | And I'm talking about Fox News. |
| 0:46.0 | Indeed, the link between the two, the extent to which Donald Trump is Fox News and Fox News is Donald Trump is stunning. |
| 0:56.2 | Worse than you think, worse than we ever believe. |
| 0:59.2 | And it's all spelled out in a great new book, I just finished it, called Network of Lies |
| 1:05.3 | by former host of CNN's reliable sources, Brian Stelter. |
| 1:10.4 | In great detail, Stelter documents how closely |
| 1:14.5 | Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartaromo, Janine Piro, and others, |
| 1:20.0 | coordinated with White House officials after the 2020 election to try to prove there was massive |
| 1:26.9 | voter fraud and how they kept putting people |
| 1:30.2 | like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on the air even though they knew they were not telling |
| 1:35.6 | the truth. It's an amazing, shocking story. And Brian Stelter stops by today to tell us all about it. |
| 1:44.7 | Brian Stelter, so good to have you back on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:47.8 | Welcome back. |
| 1:48.9 | An honor to be here. |
| 1:49.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:50.5 | Oh, and congratulations on your new book, Network of Lies. |
| 1:55.2 | It's another blockbuster. |
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