by Alex Marlow
First published 2021
Alex Marlow began his media career at twenty-one when Andrew Breitbart hired him as his first employee at UC Berkeley. Breitbart taught him to fight cultural battles through headlines while staying strong against personal attacks. Now editor in chief of Breitbart News, Marlow argues that mainstream media destroyed its credibility through relentless fake news targeting Donald Trump and his supporters to advance leftist goals. He examines how information gatekeepers operate and why America's fake news crisis may persist. Marlow and his research team analyze major fake news incidents from the Trump presidency. They investigate media organizations including Bloomberg, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, plus Silicon Valley tech companies. The book reveals how establishment media weaponizes information to achieve political and cultural objectives, pulling back the curtain on their inner workings.
Genres: american, political-science, non-fiction, 21st-century, journalism
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: expos, whistleblower
Setting: UC Berkeley
Period: Trump Presidency
368 pages · Hardcover · Threshold Editions