CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the dynamic between Fox News and President Donald Trump on Sunday when he promoted his new book: Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.
Alisyn Camerota interviewed Stelter about the book during part of his Reliable sources show, where she talked for a long time about the symbiotic nature between the president and the network. Stelter said “a lot of people [from Fox] wanted to talk to me “while writing the book because many of their journalists are increasingly worried that they will be” suffocated “and” pressured by pro-Trump blowhards. ”
At one point, Camerota asked Stelter to expand on how Fox has changed since late Roger Ailes was forced in 2016 amid numerous allegations of sexual harassment. Stelter replied that it sounded ‘crazy’, but ‘most people I spoke to wished Roger Ailes was still there. They wish he was still in the lead. ”
‘I hate to say that myself because he harassed so many women, abused his powers, but what all these sources at Fox had against me was’ at least we knew who was in song, at least we knew who’. t was the boss, and at least he stood up to Trump ‘… While Ailes was still in the lead, he challenged Trump. He issued statements saying ‘you need to learn how journalism works.’ And I think a lot of employees there felt that Trump would not have been able to take over if Ailes had not left a leadership vacuum. ”
Stelter said it was “in part Ailes’ fault” for the leadership vacuum, and he offered his hypothesis that Trump could feel that vacuum and occupy it.
‘I had a host say to me,’ The network was also produced for an audience of one: Roger Ailes, ” Stelter recalls. ” And once Ailes was gone, it was still being produced for an audience of one, but that audience became Trump. That the channel began to produce for Trump. “”
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