An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media by Joe Muto

Author:Joe Muto
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Politics
ISBN: 9780525953951
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 2013-06-04T07:00:00+00:00

April 11, 2012—3:33 P.M.

“Muto, get in here!”

I jumped out of my chair and trotted the short distance to Bill’s office. Five years of working for him had put me on a hair trigger, training me to pop out of my chair whenever he called, lest he get annoyed at my tardiness.

I poked my head in. “What’s up, Bill?”

He wordlessly held up the News Quiz folder that I’d left on his desk. I walked in and plucked it from his hand.

“Thanks,” I mumbled, and beat a hasty retreat.

Back at my desk, I went through the pages of questions. He’d used his pen to scratch a neat check mark next to each of the five he wanted to use.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a grim-faced Stan Manskoff leave his office and walk into Bill’s, closing the door after him.

That wasn’t a good sign. Bill, for all his standoffishness, rarely closed his door. As the network’s top star, he knew that no one could challenge or rebuke him, and he conducted the majority of his business without regard for who might overhear. Everything from dressing down a producer to calling his wife on the phone to dictate precisely what he wanted her to cook for dinner (“Some chicken, side of potatoes, maybe a vegetable . . . let’s say green beans”) was done within full earshot of whoever was sitting outside his office or happened to be walking down the hall.

But Stan had closed the door, which meant he had something unpleasant to tell Bill.

And I had a pretty good idea what it was.

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