An atheist in the FOXhole
Subtitle: a liberal's eight-year odyssey inside the heart of the right-wing media
By: Joe Muto
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780525953951
Subjects: HUMOR; Mass media; Television broadcasting of news; Television producers and directors; Political; Conservatism & Liberalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Objectivity; Political Ideologies; Anecdotes; Topic; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Producers and directors; Political aspects; Fox News; Biography
Description: The "Fox Mole"--Whose dispatches for Gawker made headlines in Businessweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and even The New York Times--delivers a funny, opinionated memoir of his eight years at the Fox News Channel as an associate producer for Bill O'Reilly. Imagine needing to hide your true beliefs just to keep a job you hated. Now imagine your job was producing the biggest show on the biggest cable news channel in America, and you'll get a sense of what life was like for Joe Muto. As a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal, Joe's viewpoints clearly didn't mesh with his employer. So he became Gawker's so-called Fox Mole and released footage and information that Fox News never wanted exposed. He was fired within 36 hours, so his best material never made it online, but this book provides further details about how Fox's right-wing ideology is promoted throughout the channel; why specific angles and personalities are the only ones broadcast; the bizarre stories Fox anchors actually believed (and passed on to the public); and tales of behind-the-scenes mayhem and mistakes, all part of reporting Fox's version of the news.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: The beginning of the end for a middling cable news career; title: Slacking your way to success and shame; title: I coulda been a contender; title: When Rupert met Roger; title: Paradise by the on-air light; title: A white devil in Brooklyn; title: Red Bull and Kool-Aid; title: Moonwalking into the light; title: Crime does pay, but not particularly well; title: The calling; title: Radio days; title: Stand and deliver : rage, ridicule, and sexy ladies, twice a week; title: Loofah, falafel, let's call the whole thing off; title: I loved you in "A league of their own," you far-left loon; title: Fox-flavored sausage; title: I think he said the sheriff is near; title: Rhymes with "cat bit hazy"; title: Take me out to the buffet; title: The mole; title: What have we learned?