Foxocracy: Inside the Network’s Playbook of Tribal Warfare

      Tobin Smith

From a 14-year Fox News contributor, guest anchor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author comes an unprecedented insider’s account of the Fox News playbook—the production secrets and manipulation strategies Fox uses to influence viewers, divide families, weaponize the daily discourse of news and public opinion, and addict a core audience on right-wing rage and fear.
Fox News did not start America’s culture war—but they have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it. For the first time, a Fox News veteran—fourteen years as contributor and guest anchor—exposes and diagrams the pages within the Fox News playbook that the liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020. This is the very same playbook that Fox News used to move 12% of Independents to vote Trump in 2016 and win the previous Democrat strongholds of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Author Tobin Smith takes readers behind the scenes of the actual production of the “Fair and Balanced” opinion pieces and panel segments that feed a ravenous right-wing audience. How are these productions rigged so that right-wing pundits always win? What techniques does Fox News use in manipulating its viewers’ tribal right-wing instincts: to addict them, to activate a hatred toward partisan enemies; and to hook them on feelings of intellectual and cultural superiority?
Filled with never revealed conversations with Fox News executives and opinion programming producers, breaking down the collateral damage among friends and family caused by the waging of an endless culture war, Foxocracy brings incendiary proof from an insider and on-air talent of audience manipulation psychology and production tactics. And perhaps even more frightening, this book reveals how that playbook is now being insidiously upgraded for maximum effect on all forms of social media and means of content delivery. **

Review

“Eye-opening…An erstwhile insider's broadside against Fox News…Revealing.”― Kirkus Reviews
“Pulls back all the blinds hiding the true nature of Fox News...Should be on the bedside of every American voter.”―National Compass

About the Author

Tobin Smith appeared in more than 2,000 opinion panel segments on Fox News during his tenure as a paid Fox News Channel Contributor and Guest Anchor. Contractually obligated to be at Fox News’ New York City studios at least 48 weeks a year, he was the only fulltime right-wing panelist always in the New York City studios, constantly asked by segment producers to play the role of the “hitman”―or the panel member counted on to make the final right wing argument for the right wing audience at home. He also guest hosted more than sixty episodes of Fox News and Fox Business Network programming from 2000-2013. While working with producers inside Fox News in New York City and socializing with Fox News staff at favorite watering holes after work, he learned never-before revealed strategies used to rig the outcomes of FNC opinion debate segments. Smith is also a New York Times bestselling author whose books include ChangeWave Investing 2.0 and Billion Dollar Green. 

The Lion King Live Action Novelization

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      Zoe Arden

Murder, curses, and cupcakes... it's just your average day in Sweetland Cove.

Ava Fortune is a paranormal baker by day, a witch investigator by night.
She is on the hunt again as a new wave of paranormal murders sweeps across Heavenly Haven.

This time, it's not just Sweetland Cove that's in trouble but also the neighboring town… Mistmoor Point.

Mistmoor Point has a supernatural enemy that will stop at nothing to complete their mission, even if that means killing anyone who gets in their way.

Yes, anyone… this means witches, wizards, and humans are all in danger.

Elections are just around the corner in Mistmoor Point, and things seem to be going smoothly until an assassin is discovered.

He's taking out the candidates one by one.

This time… only Ava can get to the bottom of the...  

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Someone is killing humans and drawing unwanted attention to the supernatural residents of Sweetland Cove.

Ava Rose just turned twenty-one, and with her birthday came a few surprises.
One: she's a witch.
Two: she's part owner of a magical bakery she never knew existed.
Three: Someone wants her dead.

The day Ava arrives in Sweetland Cove, murders begin occurring…
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But murders follow Ava everywhere.

Soon, she finds herself on the receiving end of the killer's mad spree. With a crazy wizarding sheriff who wants to lock her up, and an even crazier wizarding detective who wants to lock her whole family up, Ava must solve this case...  

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      Terry Spear

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