Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth

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“The mainstream mediaโ€™s obsessive hatred for President Trump outruns his anti-media fixation by a country mile, argues this evenhanded and incisive study of press relations with the Trump administration.” ~ Publishers Weekly

“โ€˜Defiance Disorderโ€™: Another new book describes chaos in Trumpโ€™s White House” ~ Ashley ParkerWashington Post

According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldnโ€™t be president. The Trump administration and the press are at warโ€”and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox Newsโ€™s Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning expose acute of how supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trumpโ€™s success, have moved into the opposing camp.

Kurtzโ€™s exclusive, in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews with reporters, anchors, and insiders within the Trump White House reveal the unprecedented hostility between the media and the president they cover.
In Media Madness, youโ€™ll learn:

  • Why White House strategist Steve Bannon told Trump he is in danger of being impeached
  • How the love-hate relationship between the president and Morning Joe hostsโ€”Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinskiโ€”turned entirely to hate
  • How Kellyanne Conway felt betrayed by journalists who befriended herโ€”and how she fought back
  • How elite, mainstream news reportersโ€”named and quotedโ€”openly express their blatant contempt for Trump
  • How Bannon tried to block short-lived Communications Director Anthony Scaramucciโ€”and why Trump soured on him
  • How Ivanka and Jared Kushner arenโ€™t the liberals the pundits want them to beโ€”and why Trump tried to discourage them from joining the White House
  • Why Trump believes some journalists harbor hatred for himโ€”and how some liberals despise his voters
  • How Trump is a far more pragmatic politician than the press often acknowledges (and how the press dismisses his flip-flops when he flops their way)
  • What Trump got wrong about Charlottesvilleโ€”and how Steve Bannon predicted the debacle
  • How the media consistently overreached on the Russian โ€œcollusionโ€ scandal
  • Why Trump actually likes journalists, secretly meets with them, and allows the press unprecedented access
  • Why Reince Priebus couldnโ€™t do his jobโ€”and the real reason he left the White House
  • How Sean Spicer privately berated journalists for bad reportingโ€”and why he and Kellyanne Conway were relentlessly attacked by the media

Never before has there been such an eye-opening, shocking look at what the White House and the media think about each other. Itโ€™s not pretty. But it also makes for the most important political book of the year.

About the Author

Howard Kurtz is a media critic and journalist who hosts the weekend show Media Buzz on Fox News and writes a weekly column on FoxNews.com. Kurtz spent 30 years reporting for The Washington Post, where he served as national affairs correspondent, New York bureau chief, and deputy national editor. He has written for The New RepublicThe Washington Monthly, and New York magazine, and previously hosted Reliable Sources on CNN. His previous books include Media CircusHot AirSpin CycleThe Fortune Tellers, and Reality Show. Kurtz is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.

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