Brian Stelter is writing another book about Fox News, the Hill reports.
The journalist’s Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy will be published this fall by Atria, which describes the book as “an even more explosive account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections.”
Stelter, who previously hosted the show Reliable Sources on CNN and reported on the media for the New York Times, is the author of the 2020 book Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. A critic for Kirkus gave the book a starred review, writing, “Those inclined to scorn the sitting president will have all the more reason to do so after reading this seething book.”
Network of Lies will deal with Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 election, in which hosts and guests of the network claimed that the race was stolen from Donald Trump via rigged voting machines made by the company Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion has sued Fox for defamation, seeking damages of $1.6 billion; the trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
“Network of Lies is a page-turning, urgent examination of the insidious ways the media is damaging our democracy—and what we must do to preserve it,” Atria says of Stelter’s new book, which is scheduled to hit bookstore shelves on Nov. 14.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
