Table of Contents
Prologue 1
"Fox News brain" 5
"Batshit crazy" 12
"Profit machine" 19
"We surrendered" 25
The Creation
"Everybody can be bought" 31
"An invisible hand" 38
"Mayor of Crazytown" 47
"People don't care if it's right" 51
"Planet Trump" 55
"I thought you were my friend" 59
The Candidate
"He's out of control" 65
"Me too" 67
"Business suicide" 75
"If I stay here, I'm going to get cancer" 77
"I'm a newsman" 81
"Is this really happening?" 85
"Loyalty is good" 91
The Commander
"Self-brainwashing" 95
"The crowds were much, much smaller" 100
"You're getting much better" 105
"The bandwagon" 112
"I want the O'Reilly lighting" 117
"It's going to be a catastrophe" 123
"You should be talking to Fox, okay?" 129
"Stench" 134
"Tell Sean to knock it off" 139
"Wardrobe enforcer" 144
"It's all so complicated" 147
"Anti-journalism" 150
"Why all these lies?" 159
"Willing to be accomplices" 164
"Out of bounds" 168
"We print money in the basement" 174
The Cult
"Fake freak" 183
"Clueless" 189
"Shadow chief of staff" 196
"Desperate" 201
"Executive Time" 208
"Don't be a baby" 212
"No one can stop us" 221
"Fix this" 227
"Prostitutes" 231
The Control Freak
"Hate-for-profit racket" 237
"Iceberg problem" 241
"They'll fire me" 243
"The times ahead will test all of us" 249
"They owe you an apology" 255
"What do you think?" 260
"You're going to be called on, Sean" 267
"The truth will always matter" 273
The Crisis
"Complicit" 279
"Democracy at risk" 286
"Costing the lives of Americans" 290
"Don't rock the boat" 294
"The flu is so much worse" 299
"Hazardous to our viewers" 305
"No reason to go backwards" 313
"I've been watching you" 316
"He wants Trump TV" 319
The Collapse
"Looking for a new outlet" 323
"You have to dominate" 325
"Rotten to the core" 329
"Unforced errors" 334
"Shit show" 338
"We're in charge" 343
"Bad dream" 348
"Arrogant fucks" 354
"Whoa, whoa, whoa" 358
"Bleeding eyeballs" 365
"What have we done?" 371
"We are lost" 374
"The Biden team has no idea" 379
Epilogue 383
Acknowledgments 387
Notes 389
Index 421
