“I wasn’t the only one who was troubled… by the dehumanization that was taking place in some of the coverage and the opinion shows,' Joseph Azam said.
A former News Corp. senior vice president said on Sunday he resigned from the media conglomerate two years ago because of Fox News’ “relationship with facts” and what he saw as the network's tendency to favor “anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-semitic, anti-muslim rhetoric.”
“When was that shift in tone?” Stelter asked, promping Azam to explain that it happened “in the run up to the elections.” “Absolutely not,” Azam said. “It’s a very diverse company in terms of ideology, opinion and intention. It’s absolutely not all of it. And one of the things I was hoping to accomplish by coming out is to say, ‘we’re here too.’ The difficulty for people in my position is that we succeed a lot of times by being invisible and and keeping quiet. And I thought it was the wrong moment to keep doing that.
Azam’s comments did not mark the first time he has spoken out about his time with the company. In an interview with NPR last month, Azam accused the company of “scaring people” and “demonizing immigrants.” Azam worked for News Corp for roughly two years, between 2015 and 2017.
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