Steve Jobs Called Fox News a ‘Destructive Force in Our Society’

Gawker ^ | October 26, 2011 | Gawker

[re_tail20]

Rupert Murdoch must have imagined Steve Jobs would be a feisty dinner guest. Even still, the News Corp. chairman couldn't have foreseen that, in one night at the mogul's Carmel, California ranch, Jobs would call his tech people incompetent, get a guy fired, and say that Fox News was literally destroying the world.

Walter Isaacson's new biography of the Apple co-founder says Jobs railed against the conservative news channel and tried to convince Murdoch to shut it down. His comments came at the 2010 iteration of News Corp.'s annual management retreat. Isaacson writes:

In return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News, which he believed was destructive, harmful to the nation, and a blot on Murdoch's reputation. "You're blowing it with Fox News," Jobs told him over dinner. "The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is conservative-destructive, and you've cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become a destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you're not careful." Jobs said he thought Murdoch did not really like how far Fox has gone. "Rupert's a builder, not a tearer-downer," he said...

[SkyDancer]

I always tell people who disagree with me -”If you don’t like what I say or do, tough. Deal with it”

[SkyDancer]

I always tell people who disagree with me -"If you don't like what I say or do, tough. Deal with it"

I simply posted an image from the internet that someone else made up. I don't care one way or other about either of them.

[rlmorel]

You don’t care one way or another about either one of them?

You came into a thread, posted words by someone else (not your own) specifically comparing the two men, added your comment at the top (I assume that was your comment at the top) and then act like you have no opinion on either of them?

Skydancer, I didn’t really expect that kind of response from you. What is wrong with making a comment and standing by it?

You said we disagree (on something you claim to have no interest in) and then you say “...tough. Deal with it...”?

Doesn’t really fit, but I guess I read you wrong. My mistake.

[SkyDancer]

This whole thing started out as a response to Jobs’ death. There are pro and con about him all over the internet. I simply posted a comparison between him and Gates that some other person made up. It was in answer to the “Saint Jobs” thing that people who liked him posted. Again, I do not care one way or other about either of them. I was just offering up my opinion. Period. I did not know that I would be slammed here, especially, for voicing an opinion. If other people, those that like him, have a problem with that, then I say “If you don’t like what I say or do, tough, deal with it”