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A feudal fight for Fox News: Rupert Murdoch’s last act Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to rewrite his Fox Corp succession plan is turning into an epic family feud that smacks of King Lear crossed with HBO’s Succession. At stake is the crown jewel of his empire: Fox News. The cast is fit for tragicomedy, with Donald… Read more.
NBC hires McDaniel NBC hired former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel with great fanfare. After all, it thought doing so would present viewers with the “fair and balanced” news analysis Fox News once promised but never delivered. Then all hell broke loose. NBC fires McDaniel The network had only just announced four days earlier that they were… Read more.
This week, the media were atwitter (or aXitter) after 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced he was stepping down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. “Succession” memes and puns abounded. But The Economist stood out for pointing out that he “isn’t going anywhere.” Murdoch was merely engaging in the same dystopian double-speak his Fox News peddles. Indeed, his ‘gaslighting’ business model is so profitable that he’s not changing… Read more.
Fox News fired Tucker Carlson today and shocked the world. Except this is the same Fox News that fired Carlson’s predecessor Bill O’Reilly. Hell, Fox even fired its co-founder Roger Ailes. And, by Fox, I’m referring to Rupert Murdoch, the wizard of Trumpism. O’Reilly and Ailes’ firing offense was creating a hostile work environment –… Read more.
On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Fox News settled Dominion’s defamation lawsuit. The chickens are finally coming home to roost for Fox. In this case, the chickens are the lies it peddled about the 2020 presidential election. Fox did so to entertain rather than inform its viewers. And peddling lies was good for business. So Fox peddled them religiously. One of the… Read more.
