Media Madness, Howard Kurtz
Media Madness, Howard Kurtz
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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

Published: 01/29/2018


Synopsis

According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn’t be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war—and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News’s Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning exposé of how supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trump’s success, have moved into the opposing camp. Kurtz’s exclusive, in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews with reporters, anchors, and insiders within the Trump White House reveal the unprecedented hostility between the media and the president they cover. In Media Madness, you’ll learn: • Why White House strategist Steve Bannon told Trump he is in danger of being impeached
• 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.

About Howard Kurtz

Howard Kurtz is a media critic and journalist who hosts the weekend show Media Buzz on Fox News and writes a weekly column on FoxNews.com. Kurtz spent 30 years reporting for The Washington Post, where he served as national affairs correspondent, New York bureau chief, and deputy national editor. He has written for The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, and New York magazine, and previously hosted Reliable Sources on CNN. His previous books include Media Circus, Hot Air, Spin Cycle, The Fortune Tellers, and Reality Show. Kurtz is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by L.A.

This book is for people interested in media on media, the future of media, and politics, so it is outside the usual mystery/thriller vein. As with anything political, readers will find this subject of interest, or not. I am not trying to persuade either way. Kurtz has exhaustively reported--and from......more

Goodreads review by Mal

Fox News commentator Howard Kurtz begins his new book, Media Madness, conceding that "Donald Trump is staking his presidency, as he did his election, on nothing less than destroying the credibility of the news media . . ." And then he proceeds to devote nearly all of the book's 256 pages attempting......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

A disturbing account of the media landscape during the opening months of the Trump administration. While Kurtz is forthcoming with the flaws of the President, he reserves most of his vitriol for the Press and the overwhelming bias they have shown - what he calls their Trump Trauma. Future historians......more

Goodreads review by Sam

Howard Kurtz does not offer all that much that will be new to news junkies who have been paying attention for the last year or so, but "Media Madness" is a good summary of the media hysteria that has accompanied the election of Donald Trump to the presidency for those who haven't been glued to TV ne......more