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An Atheist In The Foxhole
Joe Muto
A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media
Dutton
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 0525953957
EAN: 9780525953951
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The “Fox Mole”—whose dispatches for Gawker made headlines
in Businessweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and
even on The New York Times website—delivers a funny,
opinionated memoir of his eight years at the unfair,
unbalanced Fox News Channel working 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—especially his direct supervisor, Bill
O’Reilly.
So he did what any ambitious,
career-driven person would do. He destroyed his career,
spectacularly. He became Gawker’s so-called Fox
Mole.
Joe’s posts on Gawker garnered more
than 2.5 million hits in one week. He released footage and
information that Fox News never wanted exposed, including
some extremely unflattering footage of Mitt Romney. The
dragnet closed around him quickly—he was fired within
thirty-six hours—so his best material never made it online.
Unfortunate for his career as the Fox Mole, but a treasure
trove for book readers.
An Atheist in the
FOXhole has everything that liberals and Fox haters
could desire: details about how Fox’s right-wing ideology is
promoted throughout the channel; why specific angles and
personalities are the only ones broadcasted; 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.
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