Fox Chief Lachlan Murdoch Reportedly ‘Troubled’ By Tucker Carlson’s Widely-Panned Patriot Purge Series

Mediaite ^ | December 23rd, 2021 | By Alex Griffing

[Bratch]

Tucker Carlson’s three-part series, Patriot Purge, which aired on Fox Nation in November, stirred controversy, ruffled feathers inside Fox News, and reportedly “troubled” Lachlan Murdoch.

Lachlan Murdoch, who serves as the CEO of Fox Corp., is the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox Corp.

As Washington Post’s Sarah Ellison reported on Thursday, “Lachlan Murdoch was troubled by the incendiary trailer for the series, according to people who spoke with him. Yet the series continued to air on Fox Nation, which further lent Carlson an air of untouchability inside Fox.”

Ellison’s report noted that when Brian Nick, a spokesman for Lachlan Murdoch, was asked for comment, he replied, “When Lachlan has a concern, he addresses it internally with the team, not through the media.”

Patriot Purge led to Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resigning from the network in November, protesting the series and calling it “dangerous” and “revisionist history.”

[Bratch]

"Widely panned"?!

[gattaca]

Tucker Carlson is the only reason many people still watch Fox. He would be welcome at Newsmax or OAN anytime.

[dforest]

FOX is nothing without Tucker. I will dump them in a heartbeat without him.

[skeeter]

Yep. Go ahead Lachlan, sh*tcan the only moneymaker FNC has left.

[_Jim]

re: “Tucker Carlson’s three-part series, Patriot Purge, which aired on Fox Nation in November, stirred controversy, ruffled feathers inside Fox News, and reportedly “troubled” Lachlan Murdoch.”

Betcha it is his wife nagging him ...

[escapefromboston]

Widely panned?

[Olog-hai]

What do you expect from Mediaite?

[Pollard]

Sorry Lachlan Murdoch but if you dutch Tucker, the rest of conservatives will ditch you. Then you’re left with battling for whose low ratings that msnbc/cnn have.

Brett and Cavuto will not save you.

[Boomer]

Brett and Cavuto are total asshat RINO’s.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

What a dilemma, right Lachlan? Either live by your moral “woke” code, or bank the money that Tucker brings in to your company.

It’s anyone’s guess where the horns of that particular dilemma are sticking you.

[jdsteel]

I’ll never forgive or forget Cavuto saying that taking HCQ will kill you.

[stratboy]

Goldberg and Hayes didn’t get their contact renewed. Easy to quit when you’re going to get fired.

[doorgunner69]

Do not watch TV, what is the uproar about?

[Fiji Hill]

He needs to start his own network. Start sifting through some of the myriad of young conservative talk radio talent and find the keepers. It would be epic. Couple talk radio and conservative TV news directly.

One of the keepers would be Emerald Robinson. She was my favorite reporter on Newsmax, but apparently a bit too conservative and patriotic.

[jacknhoo]

Maybe Trump’s new media company can pick up Fox’s Carlson and Newsmax’s Emerald Robinson.

[Nifster]

Exactly

Panned by whom? CNN? The Biden administration? WaPo??

[euram]

I guess the truth hurts. They would rather hear the fairy tales being spewed by the Media-Dem Party about the “insurrection”.

[StAnDeliver]

Mediaite.

[griswold3]

Double agree