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"
#BoycottFox #BoycottFoxNews