CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter's forthcoming book about the nexus between Fox News Channel and the Trump administration will have a newsy focus, telling the story of the network's sometimes skeptical coverage of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The book, titled Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, is based on interviews conducted with "over 250 current and former Fox News insiders," andwill be released on Aug.
25 by One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Altria Books. With a particular focus on primetime host Sean Hannity, who used the word "hoax" in describing the response to the pandemic, the publishers say the book "exposes the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt,.