Posted on 03/05/2021 5:32:31 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Fox News will serve as the 'loyal opposition' to Joe Biden, CEO Lachlan Murdoch has announced - adding that the move was designed to boost their ratings.
In what was seen as the most frank assessment of the network to date, Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, said that the network would hold the new president to account.
Speaking on Thursday at a Morgan Stanley conference, the 49-year-old said that Fox News was aiming to echo MSNBC's success in acting as the main White House critic.
'The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view was MSNBC, and that's because they were the loyal opposition,' Murdoch said of the rival cable network, as reported by NBC.
'That's what our job is now with the Biden administration, and you'll see our ratings really improve from here.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
As a NEWS organization, how can you “market” by taking a preset position? Credibility still ZERO.(I don’t know what the news will be tomorrow, but I’m against it.)
Fake opposition.... Perfect description. Thanks
Right.
When the DC & 10 County Coup was going against the great citizens of these Untied States, what was FOX News covering?
Tucker Carlson was praising Victor Davis Hanson saying, that is just so smart.
The Laura Ingraham would have VDH on, marvel, and say- So smart.
Hannity was babbling on about Tick Tock/Tick Tock and wearing an FBI Pledge pin (ON HIS UNIFORM).
Meanwhile the DC & 10 County Coup aligned foreign interests was happening right in front of our own very eyes. They told us exactly what they were going to do and they did it, with support from our media.
FOX is finished. I will never go back.
Ever.
Faux thinks they can pull their strings and manipulate its former viewers like puppets on command. Not happening leftard elites. You say hello, but we say goodbye. Goodbye, goodbye, we do know why you say hello but it’s goodbye. Lesson on exit — don’t bite the hands that feed you. We got our own ‘woke’ going on so bye bye Faux.
I have watched no TV news since Trump’s news conference early AM 4 November. Election night.
After watching Fox push Biden on us election night, TV news makes me sick. Literally.
I do not need them.
Emphasis on the word "loyal." They aren't opposition, they are "devil's advocate" role. The public needs to see some dissent, even if it is fake.
To hell with Lachlan and that attention w#0&= he married.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice...
You’re still dead to me, Fox.
Haven’t watched fox since the ‘16 Republican debates with kelly and wallace.
Yeah, cuz they’ll be totally inundated what with all the lefties tuning in...
Still not going to watch.
Did they fire Paul Ryan?
Exactly, which is why their ratings slumped. They need to get rid of the anti-Trumpers, like Juan and Chris Matthews and Brazile etc.
Chris Matthews or Chris Wallace?
Faux ratings won’t improve at my house
Wallace :)
Mostly Opposition-ish.
They fired Lou Dobbs so I fired them. I only watch Steve Bannon’s War Room for news.
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