Few media moguls in the U.S. have the power and the platform to shape public opinion the way Murdoch does in the GOP. After the Jan. 6 riot, Murdoch aimed to cleanse the party of Trump once and for all. How Rupert Murdoch runs Fox News, in his own words:
Rudy GiulianiIn late 2020, Rupert Murdoch was holed up in the English countryside with his now ex-wife, far from Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. The pandemic seclusion left him “bored,” he recently said in a deposition, with little to do “but write stupid emails.”
On Nov. 7, 2020, just before Fox News and the other networks declared Joe Biden the president-elect, Murdoch posed a question over email to the editor of the Post, Col Allan.Murdoch has known Trump for three decades — long enough to refer to him by his first name. And he understood that Trump was a regular reader of the Post who would probably read an editorial about himself, even one that wasn’t entirely flattering.
But Murdoch wasn’t done offering advice to his executives as the president and his supporters began attacking Fox.Those who have worked for Murdoch describe his approach in conveying his wishes as something of a light touch. He doesn’t dictate demands so much as suggest and imply through his observations. And the executives who tend to survive the longest understand what he is asking for.
Scott, who had been discussing with her senior team the need to do something to slow the defection of Fox viewers to more pro-Trump networks like Newsmax, then told her boss that a “pivot” was underway. Dominion’s lawyers have argued that the shift in programming meant endorsing conspiracy theories about the company’s supposed involvement in a nonexistent plot to steal votes from Trump.She added, “We need to make sure they know we aren’t abandoning them and still champions for them.
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