PanThe Guardian (UK)I am for you, dear readers, that friend who reads a poor book about television on your behalf so you can pretend at dinner parties that you have read it. This book chronicles the recent history of Fox News and its relationship with the Murdoch family. An important subject. Without the support of Murdoch and Fox, there may well have been no President Trump. A good subject but not, sadly, a good book ... As a journalist I look for evidence that what I am reading is true. But here, where I wanted sources, I got unattributed gossip. Entire conversations between the Murdochs and their apparatchiks are recorded without the reader being given supporting evidence ... The book we need, the book that would be worth you spending several hours reading, would be one that does indeed take Fox News seriously because of its role in undermining public trust in the results of the 2020 presidential election.
