'No footnotes or citations': Critics warn book exposing Murdoch family drama can’t be trusted



Critics are alleging that author Michael Wolff's upcoming book The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, detailing the right-wing network's recently resigned Chairman Rupert Murdoch's behind-the-scenes family drama, can't be trusted, The Daily Beast Editor-at-Large Lachlan Cartwright reports.

"You can't trust anything he writes because … he needs headlines, because headlines mean more money," Cartwright reports a publishing insider told the Beast's Confider.

The Beast reported earlier this month that in the "juicy tell-all" book, filled with "at-times absurd anecdotes," offers a "behind-the-curtains look into Fox's handling of the Dominion defamation lawsuit over its 2020 election lies, its post-election clashes with former President Donald Trump, its shocking firing of Carlson, and the Murdoch family’s Succession-like turmoil."

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Cartwright reports, "The book contains no footnotes or citations, raising concerns about the validity of several of its key claims. Chief among them is the assertion that Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox as part of the Dominion settlement—a claim strenuously denied by both Dominion and Fox."

Ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer told the news outlet, "It's like when you are watching one of those adapted-for-TV movies and it says it’s based on real events. It's not saying it's based on the truth. That tells you everything about the way he writes."

The Beast adds "Spicer claimed that Wolff's Trump books were riddled with “falsehoods, inaccuracies and exaggerations.” Among those include insinuations Nikki Haley was having an affair with Trump and that special counsel Robert Mueller had drawn up a draft indictment for Trump."

An insider told the news outlet, "It's not about journalism. It’s about him reporting his impression of facts."

READ MORE: 'Hot mess': Report reveals Rupert Murdoch’s state of 'denial' about Dominion voting settlement

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