

Media Madness
Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Author: Howard Kurtz
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 01/29/2018
Synopsis
• How the love-hate relationship between the president and Morning Joe hosts—Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski—turned entirely to hate
• How Kellyanne Conway felt betrayed by journalists who befriended her—and how she fought back
• How elite, mainstream news reporters—named and quoted—openly express their blatant contempt for Trump
• How Bannon tried to block short-lived Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci—and why Trump soured on him
• How Ivanka and Jared Kushner aren’t the liberals the pundits want them to be—and why Trump tried to discourage them from joining the White House
• Why Trump believes some journalists harbor hatred for him—and how some liberals despise his voters
• How Trump is a far more pragmatic politician than the press often acknowledges (and how the press dismisses his flip-flops when he flops their way)
• What Trump got wrong about Charlottesville—and how Steve Bannon predicted the debacle
• How the media consistently overreached on the Russian “collusion” scandal
• Why Trump actually likes journalists, secretly meets with them, and allows the press unprecedented access
• Why Reince Priebus couldn’t do his job—and the real reason he left the White House
• How Sean Spicer privately berated journalists for bad reporting—and why he and Kellyanne Conway were relentlessly attacked by the mediaNever before has there been such an eye-opening, shocking look at what the White House and the media think about each other. It’s not pretty. But it also makes for the most important political book of the year.