Breaking news: Rupert Murdoch to retire from Fox and News Corporation boards

Son Lachlan now in charge of everything.

92 year old Dad will still advise.

What a pity.

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What a pity.

Yeah, too bad for us that it didn't happen decades ago.

Tucker Carlson cost him wife #6… guess he decided to hang it up.

Any chance of his son being a moderating influence on FOX news/opinion?

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Any chance of his son being a moderating influence on FOX news/opinion?

I would imagine just like MBS is a moderating influence on the Saudi Royal family.

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Any chance of his son being a moderating influence on FOX news/opinion?

I believe he's more right-wing than Pops.

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Any chance of his son being a moderating influence on FOX news/opinion?

I believe he's more right-wing than Pops.

Yep, pop’s was all about the money. Son is a real nut-job ideologue.

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For some reason 'Freedom Of Speech' NY Post and Fox News are not allowing any comments on this story.

The forecast for Fox News: Business as usual, or worse

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At the network’s launch 1n 1996, Murdoch placed Republican operative and television producer Roger Ailes in charge of turning Fox News into the country’s No. 1 cable news operation. Ailes eventually succeeded, on the back of distorted and often false programming that vilified liberals and served as a mouthpiece for the Republican Party — essentially a glossy, televised version of a right-wing tabloid. Ailes lasted until 2016, when a lawsuit filed by onetime Fox News host Gretchen Carlson helped expose a wide-ranging sexual harassment scandal. Fox News ushered in new management and upgraded its human resources practices.

Yet subsequent events demonstrated that the Fox News programming formula — Republican propaganda and high ratings — was more durable than its architects. Minus Ailes, Fox News continued its path toward reckless and biased reporting, a strain personified by the now-former host Tucker Carlson. For more than six years of prime-time broadcasting, Carlson served as disinformer in chief at Fox News, a run that enjoyed the support of Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the other top executive at Fox Corporation and News Corp. “Inside the network, [Carlson] answers solely to the Murdochs themselves,” noted a New York Times investigation.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Said an embittered, defeated Murdoch:

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In his resignation letter, he attacked “bureaucracies” who wanted to “silence those who would question their provenance and purpose” and “elites” who “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.”

Every accusation is a confession.

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Said an embittered, defeated Murdoch:

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In his resignation letter, he attacked “bureaucracies” who wanted to “silence those who would question their provenance and purpose” and “elites” who “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.”

Every accusation is a confession.

I wonder if he really sees himself as a champion of the little guy or is just staying with that pretense right up to the end.

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e pluribus unum

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Said an embittered, defeated Murdoch:

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In his resignation letter, he attacked “bureaucracies” who wanted to “silence those who would question their provenance and purpose” and “elites” who “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.”

Every accusation is a confession.

I wonder if he really sees himself as a champion of the little guy or is just staying with that pretense right up to the end.

If you repeat the lie enough times, you begin to believe it.