Trump will often hear about news – like conspiracy theories – about Fox, and he will make policies based on what he hears on the network. He also often calls the network to tell him what to cover.
“It’s like Trump has hacked Fox News,” CNN Chief Media Correspondent and anchor of trusted sources Brian Stelter said in an interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Sunday. Even people who never see Fox are hit because the president has been misinformed by the channel. “
Stelter delves into the Trump-Fox relationship in his new book “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.”
In Sunday’s interview on ‘Reliable Resources,’ Stelter said Trump helped change the way the network transmitted news. Producers “Fox and Friends” told Stelter that they “programmed the show for the president” because they knew he was watching.
The relationship is a two-way street, Stelter notes.
“Trump feeds conversation points to hosts morning and evening, but a lot of the time, Trump just responds to what he sees,” Stelter said.
Stelter said he was surprised by how many people at Fox were willing to chat with him for the book.
“Hundreds of people in and around Fox News wanted to talk,” he said.
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