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AN ATHEIST IN THE FOXHOLE
By: 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
Hardcover
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The βFox Moleββwhose dispatches for Gawker made headlines in Businessweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and even on The New York Times websiteβdelivers 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 youβll get a sense of what life was like for Joe Muto. As a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal, Joeβs viewpoints clearly didnβt mesh with his employerβespecially his direct supervisor, Bill OβReilly.
So he did what any ambitious, career-driven person would do. He destroyed his career, spectacularly. He became Gawkerβs so-called Fox Mole.
Joeβs 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 quicklyβhe was fired within thirty-six hoursβso 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 Foxβs 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 Foxβs version of the news.
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