The book is divided into four parts. Part one travels back in time to the creation of Rupert’s media empire. A good part of this section discusses Carlson and Murdoch, and the operations of the media empire.
Part two discusses the Dominion revelations to reconstruct November and December of 2020. Here we see how the correct call for Arizona by the election desk didn’t go over well for those who made the correct decision. Really, didn’t any of Fox’s viewers want the truth? Those who defended their “correct decisions” got clobbered by the base. One “became a target of murderous rage from consumers who were furious at not having their views confirmed.” Fox was being confronted with a new paradigm, according to the author: “They don’t trust us anymore because this time we didn’t lie.” We eventually reach a point where few Trump voters considered Biden the legitimate 2020 election winner. The frustration of the Fox host was tangible. There is much to unpack in this section. I will leave it to the reader to fathom it all.
Part three covers the failed coup and the first two years of the Biden administration. We see how just one week after the January 6 event, things started to be reframed. It was no longer a coup attempt, but a conspiracy against conservatives. The danger in promoting falsehoods is that it inspires “people who are already prone to, or have a propensity for violence, to commit violence,” according to Michael Fanone. An interesting point made is that when cable news wars began back in the 90’s, the channels were more alike that they were apart. By the early 2020’s, they no longer covered the same topics. As the author notes, “it was a serious transformation, a symptom of a country coming apart, a country full of people unable to see what they have in common while they stare at screens that separate them further.” It became obvious that as Trey Gowdy said, “Fox has much more influence over Republican primary voters that anyone who’s elected.”
Part four explores what Dominion learned by deposing Rupert. A lot of material is covered here. Read the book to get all the minutia. In the end, it is as disinformation researcher Caroline Bueno said, the payout “is essential a lying tax – for them, it’s just the cost of doing business.” The disinformation system works quite well. A New York Times and Siena College poll showed that 91 percent of the people who rely on Fox for information said they did not believe Trump committed any serious crimes. Many news viewers today want anger/resentment confirmation. We shouldn’t serve it up to them. As Jeh Johnson said, “More and more Americans are becoming detached from reality. More and more Americans are becoming prone to violence.”
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