Past administrations have had favored press members, says New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, "but nothing where someone is so close in that they are coordinating on a daily basis with the president."
Rupert Murdoch and Bill Shine created the Fox Shadow Cabinet #DarkState #ShadowGovernment
Listen to Terry Gross’s interview with Jane Mayer. Mayer wrote the New Yorker article, "The Making of the Fox News White House,"
"Some of the people who are still hosting shows on Fox are seen by many of the people who are in and around the White House — including some of the White House staff — as basically being a 'shadow cabinet.' ", Jane Mayer
Interview Highlights
Trump tried to order the Justice Department to file a lawsuit to stop AT&T from acquiring Time Warner
Trump: "Block that deal. I want it blocked. I've told you 50 times. We need to get that suit filed."
Gary Cohn told John Kelly: "Don't you dare do that. This is not how we're going to do business."
On how White House communication has changed under Bill Shine #Orwellian #TrumpStateTV
In July 2018, former Fox News co-President Bill Shine joined the White House staff as deputy chief of staff for communications and assistant to President Trump.
Sarah "Goebbels“ Sanders #FakeNews
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has pretty much shut down most of the daily briefings for the press, and that instead, she started appearing quite frequently on Fox News, where she gets softball questions. So a number of Trump administration officials, including Sanders, have started popping up on Fox News rather than being available to the press corps at large .
Hannity the Trump Whisper #HouseOfLies
“Sean Hannity has now had something like 44 interviews with President Trump himself. That's in comparison with just 10 combined for all the other television networks. And CNN, which President Trump doesn't like, has been given no interviews.”
Other Highlights
On what that story shows about the Trump White House's relationship to Fox News
On how Fox News had the Stormy Daniels story before the election — and killed it
On reporting that Trump was tipped off about Fox News host Megyn Kelly's question before the Republican presidential debate in August 2015
On the origin of Trump and Murdoch's relationship
On how Murdoch has disparaged Trump behind his back in the past, seeing him as a "real estate huckster and a shady casino operator"
Bill Shine, the Fox News flunky who joined the White House last summer -- to manage Trump's communications -- just abruptly resigned. - [ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/bill-shine-resigns.html ]
Journalist Sees 'Almost No Daylight' Between Fox News And White House Agendas
Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman says the president is in regular contact with Fox News host Sean Hannity: "They speak almost daily, after Hannity's show, sometimes before, and sometimes for up to an hour a day." Sherman talks about former Fox News co-president Bill Shine's new role as deputy chief of staff, and the ways in which the president acts as an "executive producer" of the cable news network.
“In the wake of [Roger] Ailes' departure from Fox News there was a real power vacuum. I made the argument in a piece for Vanity Fair that Donald Trump really became the executive producer of Fox News. It's not only Sean Hannity that he speaks to. Donald Trump has, on his phone list, the numbers of many of the prominent Fox News personalities, and he will call them to suggest story ideas or to compliment them, and when they go on the air they are thinking of ways to speak directly to the president.
So there is this really bizarre and surreal dynamic that the president of the United States is the executive producer, the head of one of the three cable news networks, which exists to promote his agenda. ... I think it's more than a feedback loop, I think it's basically one organization.”
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine has received millions of dollars in severance from Fox News Channel’s parent company and is owed millions more, a new financial disclosure report shows. The report released Friday shows that Shine received $8.4 million in severance pay from 21st Century Fox after he left in May 2017. He’ll also receive bonus and options payments in 2018 and 2019 amounting to $7 million for the two years combined. The agreement is set to expire May 1, 2019.
This is what they do with all that Marvel films profit…
