Posted on 01/26/2021 1:46:43 PM PST by familyop
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp. and Fox Corporation, said that media organizations are facing widespread “censorship” that seeks to “stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential.”
Murdoch made the statement in his pre-taped acceptance of a lifetime achievement award from the Australia Day Foundation, the New York Times reports. Murdoch, whose News Corp. Australia properties reach more than 17 million Australians monthly, and whose Fox News Twitter account has 20 million followers, also referred in the video to “rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media” as being a “straitjacket on sensibility.”
[Murdoch Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isWWo34KPdA
“For those of us in media,” Murdoch says in the video, “there’s a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential. This rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media, is a straitjacket on sensibility. Too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful woke orthodoxy.”
The Australia Day Foundation is a non-profit organization for Australian-born leaders in business, entertainment, sports, and other areas living in the United Kingdom. The Australia Day Awards are given to “those in our community you have made a significant contribution to Australian-UK relations.”
Murdoch is from Australia, and is also a U.S. citizen, but has been spending the coronavirus pandemic in his home in England, where he received the coronavirus vaccine.
One day after the video was posted on the website of the Murdoch-owned Herald Sun newspaper in Australia, the New York Post, another Murdoch-owned tabloid, featured a cover essay by conservative Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and is seen by some as having encouraged the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In his essay, Hawley, like Murdoch, similarly complained about so-called “cancel culture,” and being forced to “endorse the right ideas” and “conform.”
In addition to having a cover story in the New York Post, Hawley has a book deal for his upcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, with conservative publishing outfit Regnery Publishing. The Regnery book deal came after Simon and Schuster revoked its book deal with Hawley, citing Hawley’s “role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”
Nice try Rupert but we aren’t going back to Fox.
He turned over control of fox news to his 2 leftist sons. Now gox news is getting their asses kicked in the ratings by cnn and msnbc
He turned over control of fox news to his 2 leftist sons. Now fox news is getting their asses kicked in the ratings by cnn and msnbc
Rupert Murdoch hasn’t been running Fox News for a long time. The news that he was giving control of it to one of his sons was published years ago.
Thanks. Different article, different publication, same news, more information on this page.
I saw a story recently that major decisions at Fox were still being made by Rupert and he has turned into a Never Trumper.
I don’t think Rupert ever liked Pres.Trump.
Thanks. Looks like we’ve been receiving some conflicting news over the years. Here’s a little info on other influences. Sorry we don’t have a viable conservative source for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Scott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch
Arizona.
Now...he tries to suck up to his ex base.
Media is just there to stir the muck. They will allow anything which makes their profits go up. They need to be destroyed...by any and all legal manners.
The best way is to destroy the carriers of their despicable behaviour...cut the cable...dish..or broadcasting companies, and never go back...even if they become staunch conservatives...they blew it big time..do not deserve a second chance...
If 40 million cut their newsfeed...many of those companies go belly up. Less profit for advertisers...less profit for data miners...less profit for fake journalists. If you need true info....ya don’t want to give the cuurent crop anything. They are financial toast.
True. We need more conservative news outlets installed from the fiber line interfaces and satellite feeds, up (that is, as little reliance on other businesses as possible). Making personal software changes for more personal privacy can also help (re. advertiser tracking, etc.).
Yet, this son of bitch worked hard to defeat the President standing up to both.
Well, Ruupee baby, you helped facilitate what’s going on.
Dynasties don’t work, especially in politics or religion. Murdoch should have sent his lefty sons out on their own and turned control over Fox to a board of conservatives with track records.
don’t blame the children:
15 Oct: Daily Beast: Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden
THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
The Australian mogul is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy and telling associates “people are ready for Sleepy Joe.”
by Lachlan Cartwright
At one point in the winter, as Murdoch grew increasingly frustrated with Trump, he even considered getting behind another Democratic candidate, having discussions about supporting Mike Bloomberg in his ill-fated presidential run, a Murdoch executive told The Daily Beast.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Murdoch twice tweeted his support for a Bloomberg run.
But he is now firmly of the mindset that the next president will be Biden, telling one associate, “after all that has gone on, people are ready for Sleepy Joe.”
Friends say Murdoch has never taken Trump seriously and his association with him is out of business necessity. He once tweeted, “When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?”...
While the elder Murdoch has dialed back his workload, he is taking a keen interest in a secretive new TV news channel being developed in the U.K. by former CBS News chief David Rhodes, who has been tipped as a future head of Fox News, a network where he served as vice president of news...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-owner-rupert-murdoch-predicts-a-landslide-win-for-biden
Wikipedia: David Rhodes (media executive)
At the end of 2020 he began as head of News UK TV, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. He served as the president of CBS News from 2011 until 2019...
He is the brother of Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for President Barack Obama...
Rhodes began his career in television journalism with Fox News, where he joined as a Production Assistant before the channel launched in October 1996. He eventually became Vice President of News and stayed at Fox for 12 years. In 2008, Rhodes moved to Bloomberg L.P. as Head of U.S. Television...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rhodes_(media_executive)
Kind of makes you laugh don’t it; when you think about how ignorant, woke, and petty libralist both CNN and MSNBC are.
Well, you stupid Aus-hole, you shouldn’t have given your empire over to your stupid children and their horrible evil wives.
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