Posted on 05/26/2023 9:22:54 AM PDT by Kazan
FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch hosted Governor Ron DeSantis at his California Ranch in Bel Air in 2020. He told him FOX News would support his potential run for president in 2024.
Since then Murdoch and FOX Corp fired its top host Tucker Carlson who was a favorite of the Trump-MAGA crowd.
FOX News has since implemented a soft ban on President Trump.
The news channel is suffering from this new direction. FOX News has lost nearly half of its audience since firing Tucker Carlson.
Knewz reported on this meeting. For the record, Knewz was owned by Murdoch’s NewsCorp until 2021.
According to Vanity Fair, the conservative news mogul invited the Florida Governor to his Vineyard in Bel Air, California for dinner in 2020 and assured him that Fox would support his potential presidential run in 2024.
Earlier this year, signs of this sentiment became more apparent as Fox implemented a soft ban on Trump and began featuring DeSantis more frequently.
Additionally, during this time, the Dominion lawsuit loomed over the news corporation, prompting it to distance itself from the election controversy and thus steer clear of Trump.
Murdoch even expressed regret, stating that he would have preferred his anchors to be more assertive in denouncing Trump’s election conspiracies that defined his campaigns. He was also quoted saying, “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight,” per the Independent.
I question if any of this is true...
Isn’t that what’s called an ‘in-kind’ political contribution?...................
At least Fox is being honest about it...a century or so ago newspapers were Republican or Democrat and openly said so.
I don't think he was fired. Isn't he still under contract? He was removed from the air.
I don’t. You must not be watching
Hey Ron better watch your back
Not surprising. The question is who will they support when the choice is Trump or Biden? I suspect they will support Biden.
Yes.
There aren't enough buckets in the world to rescue these companies.
Further reason to:
1. Not watch fox news.
2. Vote for desantis
I hope this is true because the more you see DeSantis the more unlikeable and grating he is.
Should be
2.NOT vote for desantis.
“I question if any of this is true”
Considering the source tend to agree......
This is confirmation from what was patently obvious from their programming. Rupert Moloch wants someone he can control and Trump is not that person.
DeSatan is a billionaire fluffer who worships Moloch. He wants welfare for corporations, to cut Social Security, and to let insurance companies screw over the people as much as possible. Florida is totally unaffordable now and it’s largely the fault of giant real estate corporations that bought up houses and also the fault of insurance companies that paid off DeSatan.
Just as Fox supported Trump when he was hot. So what?
Faux is to newz as Bud Light is to beer.
They will support DeSantis until election night. Then they will break for the democrats. They do it every time and the viewers fall for it and come back for more.
They never supported Trump. He just was a viewer getter and money maker for all channels.
And, what sources do you prefer? National Review?
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