begooode Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Perhaps the shareholder lawsuits will shape changes at Fox? Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is retiring in November as the chairman of Fox and News Corp., a significant shift for a company that has significantly shaped political discourse across the country and particularly on the right for decades. Murdoch, 92, will transition into a new role as chairman emeritus for both companies, and his son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become sole chairman of News Corp and continue as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporation. Murdoch insisted he was stepping down at a point where the companies are in good health after a turbulent year that saw Fox News, the crown jewel of his conservative media empire, agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle claims of defamation out of court in connection with false statements the network aired about the company’s software being promoted by former President Trump and his allies. “Our companies are in robust health, as am I,” Murdoch wrote in a note to employees Thursday announcing the news. “Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years – I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them. But the battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense.” Lachlan, the elder Murdoch wrote, is “absolutely committed to the cause.” https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4215913-rupert-murdoch-stepping-down-as-chair-of-fox-and-news-corp/ IsntLifeFunny 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reo Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 (edited) And this guy is taking over.. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/lachlan-murdoch-architect-fox-news-extremist-turn-may-soon-gain-even-more-power It's gonna get worse. Outside chance Rupert is stepping down so the incoming shareholder lawsuits will hit his son instead of him though. Maybe even push him out? It'd be pretty slick of Rupert Murdoch to step aside just in time for the lawsuits to hit and force out the top guy as retribution which would then be pushing out Lachlan instead of Rupert. I doubt it though. Edited September 21, 2023 by reo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OILERMAN Posted September 30, 2023 Report Share Posted September 30, 2023 “The people you know live in this moment,” Fox News founder Roger Ailes once told the journalist Michael Wolff, “the people who Fox is for live in 1965.” The Murdoch family enabled Ailes to create an alternate world for this curated audience of regressives at the network. But Wolff reports that Ailes had no use for the Murdochs, especially the sons, James and Lachlan, whom he derided as “gay”—a label he applied to all coastal elite men. Ailes carefully chose his stars and style with 1965 and not-gay in mind. Dumb was OK. Plucking Sean Hannity from an $800-a-week radio job in Atlanta, Ailes boasts, was a brilliant move precisely because Hannity is, well, not that bright. “Smart is what people hate. God they hate it,” the old man tells Wolff. And Hannity, whom Ailes and Murdoch and Wolff all openly regard as an idiot, rose to the very top of the power structure. (“He’s retarded, like most Americans,” Murdoch once remarked, according to Wolff.) Hannity became Trump’s straight man, interlocutor, and therapist: his Howard Stern, his video Boswell. “Trump, Hannity recognized, was quite the dumber ox. Hannity, in Trump’s presence, was the clear contrast gainer, the considered, methodical, thoughtful one,” Wolff writes. MadMax, IsntLifeFunny, begooode, and 1 other 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine Posted September 30, 2023 Report Share Posted September 30, 2023 Fox News once again ensuring their readers are informed by delivering the news that matters most. With the government shutdown less than 24 hours away…the front page of FoxNews.com currently has thirteen other “headline stories” listed before there’s anything related to the impending shutdown. Here are a few examples of the critically important events and news stories they’ve chosen to prioritize over the shutdown. Married pilot snorts cocaine off topless woman in booze-fueled romp before flight Michigan homeowners paint their front door pink, sparking viral reaction from US postal worker Country singer married to a former NFL player has advice for Taylor Swift IsntLifeFunny, reo, MadMax, and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
begooode Posted September 30, 2023 Report Share Posted September 30, 2023 A couple of years back, intermittently checking the pulse of headlines on Fox homepage, what wasn’t Hillary content had a significantly disproportionate coverage of student/teacher relationships, oftentimes with an interracial twist. It could not have been an editorial coincidence, imo, but rather came off as the intentional mainstream boosting of salacious tabloid bullshit, feeding the fearporn culture wars on every level. nine 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OILERMAN Posted September 30, 2023 Report Share Posted September 30, 2023 Russian TV teases launch of Tucker Carlson show https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66894124 LOL reo, and MadMax 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine Posted October 1, 2023 Report Share Posted October 1, 2023 23 hours ago, begooode said: A couple of years back, intermittently checking the pulse of headlines on Fox homepage, what wasn’t Hillary content had a significantly disproportionate coverage of student/teacher relationships, oftentimes with an interracial twist. It could not have been an editorial coincidence, imo, but rather came off as the intentional mainstream boosting of salacious tabloid bullshit, feeding the fearporn culture wars on every level. Exactly, The vast majority of their front page content falls under one of three general categories: # 1: Evil Dems are destroying America #2: Everything about your values and your way of life is under attack and is being taken away and destroyed. (Which is often tied back to #1) #3: Titillating and salacious tabloid stories ChemEngr79, IsntLifeFunny, and begooode 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted October 6, 2023 Report Share Posted October 6, 2023 IsntLifeFunny 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
begooode Posted October 17, 2023 Report Share Posted October 17, 2023 Sure, Fox is the same thing as MSNBC, CNN… IsntLifeFunny, and MadMax 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkiller Posted November 30, 2023 Report Share Posted November 30, 2023 In the tradition of attacking Obama for getting Dijon mustard on a burger, now they attack Biden for drinking a milkshake with a straw… IsntLifeFunny, reo, and MadMax 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ctm Posted December 1, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 Inflation is down sharpely and the stock market is up. Hunter Biden has embarrassed republicans by offering to testify publically. Drinking a milkshake thru a straw is the best they've got. IsntLifeFunny, OILERMAN, begooode, and 3 others 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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begooode Posted January 25, 2024 Report Share Posted January 25, 2024 (edited) The voting technology company Smartmatic can move forward with its defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation, a New York judge ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to the parent company of Fox News, which is already fighting the massive lawsuit over its repeated airing of 2020 election lies. The decision from Manhattan Supreme Court Judge David Cohen represents a significant setback to Fox’s corporate leadership, including the powerful Murdoch family, who will now face more scrutiny in the litigation. Cohen already let the case proceed against Fox News — and on Wednesday, he rejected a request by Fox Corporation to throw out the claims against the parent company. The lawsuit was filed in the wake of the 2020 election, when Fox repeatedly gave airtime to far-right figures who promoted outrageous and debunked claims that Smartmatic rigged the presidential election by flipping millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. They did this even though on-air anchors, top producers and executives privately admitted that the election wasn’t stolen. The judge said Smartmatic’s case was strong enough to proceed against the parent company because it has “sufficiently alleged that (Fox) Corp. employees acted with malice by purposely and deliberating publishing knowingly false stories about (Smartmatic) in order to benefit (Fox) Corp.’s financial interest.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/media/fox-corporation-smartmatic/index.html Edited January 25, 2024 by begooode MadMax, IsntLifeFunny, titanruss, and 1 other 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted January 25, 2024 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2024 Hopefully smartmatic takes it the full way. If I recall they said they would refuse any settlement. MadMax 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMax Posted February 23, 2024 Report Share Posted February 23, 2024 (edited) Edited February 23, 2024 by MadMax Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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