The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman


CNN's Brian Stelter on Trump, Fox News, and 'Distortions of Truth'

September 09, 2020

CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter has watched with amazement and alarm as the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News has grown ever more intertwined and interdependent. Fox primetime hosts float conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims, and Trump tweets and repeats them to the world. Stelter, who anchors the CNN show Reliable Sources, explores this unprecedented relationship in his new book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. Stelter discusses how Trump has spurned his own briefings in favor of whatever he hears on Fox News and, as the Washington Post writes, "expose[s] a collusion that threatens the pillars of our democracy."