Rupert Murdoch. What an asshole.
Don't let the door hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya.
Rupert Murdoch, the desiccated wizard behind the Fox Conspiracy Machine, announced on Thursday he would step down as CEO of Fox and News Corp.
Among Murdoch’s more noticeable sins, he:
Built a reputation for turning good newspapers into rags not fit for the undercarriage of a pet rabbit.
Provided a giant platform for the spread of fear and racism.
Promoted and sustained a flawed talking head who never met a conspiracy theory he wouldn’t share. Actually, Murdoch did that more than once, the asshole.
Encouraged and abetted his news company employees to take the Big Lie and run with it. There’s big money in chaos, until the lawyer calls, which leads us to:
Settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for just shy of $800 million — which would tell even the less legal-eyed among us that the lil’ snap feared going to court and losing more. (Dominion is not done collecting media heads and I am here for it.)
Murdoch’s son, Lachlan, appears poised to take the tiara, so there is zero reason to celebrate anything other than we just won’t hear from Murdoch the Elder quite so much. The cancer is here and it has metastasized. The antidote is information — lots of it.
I am always amazed by the responses I get from goofballs that are still stuck in the Fox “ news “ muck
When I point out that they settled the defamation suit for $780 million dollars for lying to them , they say but they all lie
If they all lie , why would you believe anything anyone says
I couldn't agree with you more if I had a dump truck.
You say that the antidote is information-- lots of it. Including the information that is interpretation, which should be told in stories, not merely freestanding stats and buzzwords, and without seeking under every rock or in every shoutfest for some contrarian to establish cheapjack "independence."
I agree So Much. And with large media outlets so entwined with big money advertisers, such coverage is available only through small media and passionate independent journalists. May they thrive despite the efforts to smother them, and may they lead our nation to a journalistic renaissance. I remember the Watergate-prompted journalistic revolution of the 1970s, and I have hope.