Network of Lies, Brian Stelter
Network of Lies, Brian Stelter
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Network of Lies
The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for America

Author: Brian Stelter

Narrator: Brian Stelter

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2023


Synopsis

Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections—from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.

The ongoing criminal trials of Donald Trump are also a trial for the nation he once led. We are undergoing a stress test of American democracy, the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared political reality. Can we achieve accountability for premeditated assaults on democracy and what forms should accountability take?

In Network of Lies, New York Times bestselling author Brian Stelter answers these questions by weaving together private texts, unpublished emails, depositions, and other primary sources to tell the chilling story of Trump’s alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, and the right-wing media’s mission to put him back in office in 2024.

Trump couldn’t have convinced millions of Americans of the Big Lie without Fox News. From the moment Joe Biden became president-elect in 2020, Fox hosts fueled a fire of misinformation and violence by spreading Trump’s tales of election fraud and suppressing the truth. Come January, Sean Hannity insisted Trump needed to stop listening to “crazy people” who swore he could stay in power, but it was too late—thousands of Trump’s deluded followers had stormed the Capitol and Trump operatives had breached Dominion Voting Systems’ voting machines in Georgia.

Now, the 2020 lies are at the center of numerous indictments and his reelection campaign, but Trump is not the only one under fire. The once-untouchable Rupert Murdoch has been held accountable. Dominion’s legal war, chronicled in-depth for the first time here, revealed that the ninety-two-year-old Fox chairman knew Trump’s lies were dangerous but he allowed the lies to fill Fox’s airwaves because, as his “pain sponge” Suzanne Scott admitted, telling the truth was “bad for business.”

Network of Lies goes inside the chat rooms, board rooms, and court rooms where the pro-Trump media’s greed and selfishness were exposed. Featuring Stelter’s “thorough and damning” (The New York Times) investigative prowess and direct quotations so shocking they read like fiction, Network of Lies is the definitive origin story of Trump’s attempt to tear down the guardrails of American democracy, and an urgent plea to learn from past mistakes as we head into 2024’s pivotal presidential election.

About Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter is the New York Times bestselling author of three books: Top of the MorningHoax, and Network of Lies. Previously, Stelter was a media reporter at The New York Times, the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide, and the anchor of Reliable Sources. He is currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and a Walter Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Stelter is a producer on the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, which is inspired by his first book Top of the Morning. He also executive produced the HBO documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter @BrianStelter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on February 26, 2025

I don't watch FOX News. In truth, I don't watch any news anymore. Over ten years ago, I made a decision to reduce stress and lower blood pressure by not watching TV news. Even local news. I feel that my life---and, by extension, my family's---is better for it. According to Brian Stelter, in his enter......more

Goodreads review by Malia on January 02, 2024

Though this was well written and researched, it felt extremely repetitive after a while. The subject matter is frustrating, which I knew it would be, of course, so the book just felt about a third too long. I do think it's interesting, just a bit too much.......more

Goodreads review by Beauregard on November 26, 2023

I held Stelter’s previous book “Hoax,” in contempt; he didn’t fully grasp that Fox was populated with evil beings and they are destroying the country by enabling the MAGA moron Fascists to destroy democracy. This book is different. Stelter is shouting as loud as I shout and is doing everything in hi......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on February 27, 2024

Before I write anything, please raise your right hand and repeat after me: “I will NOT post any comments that will devolve this whole thing into a political nuclear meltdown.” Thanks! Now that we’ve got that out of the way…Yikes! Stetler makes Fox News look like Cringe Central. I can’t imagine the wo......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on November 17, 2023

I think I follow the news a bit too closely for this to feel like anything new or surprising, but for those who aren’t being mean to themselves by keeping close eye on political and media news, I do think it might be pretty eye opening and shocking.......more