But unlike the politicians Murdoch has bullied into submission with his tabloids, human biology is immovable. He reminds people that his mother, Dame Elisabeth, lived until 103 (“I’m sure he’ll never retire,” she told me when I interviewed her in 2010, a day after her 101st birthday). “I’m now convinced of my own immortality,” he famously declared after beating prostate cancer in 1999 at the age of 69.
Murdoch assiduously avoids any discussion of a future in which he isn’t in command of his media empire. Many of these episodes went unreported in the press, which was just how Murdoch liked it. In recent years, Murdoch has suffered a broken back, seizures, two bouts of pneumonia, atrial fibrillation, and a torn Achilles tendon, a source close to the mogul told me. These words were also spoken by a Fox News personality in recent days: "The focus of this administration on vaccination is mind boggling.COVID was only the most recent medical emergency that sent Murdoch to the hospital. The day after Murdoch sent out his memo last week announcing the employee bonuses, meanwhile, firebrand Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren made headlines for declaring that flight attendants enforcing pandemic restrictions were turning into “ Nazis of the air. It was in response to Fox News finishing out 2020 as the most-watched basic cable network for the fifth consecutive year. "We are immensely proud and honored to once again serve as the destination for news and opinion in America,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement at the end of last year. More Democrats tuned in to Fox News (11%) to get their fix of 2020 election news, compared to Republicans who decided to “switch teams” during the election to check out CNN (9%) or MSNBC (3%).
In fact, per the findings of that report: According to a Pew Research Center study from earlier this year, more Democrats on a regular basis watch Fox than you might expect. Moreover, you can’t summarily dismiss it as exclusively a propaganda tool of the right, the way the left has a habit of doing. Anthony Fauci himself has praised (albeit literally in the same breath as he laments the news division’s excesses) - "If you listen to Fox News, with all due respect to the fact that they do have some good reporters, some of the things that they report there are outlandish, to be honest with you.” No doubt, there’s always been and will continue to be something of a split personality disorder that pervades Fox’s news division. “Fair and balanced,” in other words, seems to have morphed into “the loyal opposition.” Which is to say, it certainly sends a message when the top executive espousing that philosophical direction for the network thinks everyone below him did great work last year. "That’s what our job is now with the Biden administration, and you’ll see our ratings really improve from here.” and that’s because they were the loyal opposition," Murdoch said. "The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view was MSNBC. CEO himself - Murdoch being the eldest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch - made the following comment at a Morgan Stanley investor conference earlier this year: He told those present that the network believes its job now is to serve as a counterweight to the Biden administration. employee - but it’s instructive to remember just how much of an outsized degree of influence that the company’s news division has on the world. Which, again, are being awarded to every Fox Corp. spokeswoman did not respond to an inquiry about the employee bonuses.
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