Posted on 10/25/2011 5:32:25 PM PDT by lbryce
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...
Murdoch later said he was used to people like Jobs complaining about Fox. "He's got sort of a left wing view on this," he said. Jobs asked him to have his folks make a reel of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck shows - he thought they were more destructive than Bill O'Reilly - and Murdoch agreed to do so. saacson's book also confirms our 2010 item about how the Wall Street Journal's Gordon McLeod got fired for crossing Jobs at the same Carmel retreat.
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Jobs was a leftist, he never stopped being a leftist.
Steve Jobs is dead.
Long Live the Woz!
Jobs had the Hollywood syndrome.
Just because you are outstanding in one certain area — acting, creating really cool computers, etc. — doesn’t mean you are an expert on all things cultural and political.
IOW, nobody freaking cares what you think. Just go do your thing and leave all of us alone.
Yeah. Because FOX News, by far the ratings leader in cable news, should be listening to a Commie Pinko computer salesman for programing advice. What a typical Leftist tactic to force an opposing view shut down for decorum's sake.
In her book “Shut up and Sing” Laura reminds us that success in one field does NOT make you an authority in all....
Didn’t he also credit LSD use for his creative ideas?...He may have been a technological genius but he seemed to be out there in other respects.
Sorry, but aside from being lucky enough to lead one of two major companies leading the world in the advent of the computer age, seems to me Jobs was an idiot.
memo to Steve Jobs, some Americans don’t want nothing to do with your society
LOL. Nice.
“Jobs was a big leftest”, and like the other rich lefty’s in Hollywood and elsewhere, never gave any of his billions to help others. Whats that say about him. Now his wife can continue to fund her liberal endeavors.
He was bashing outsourcing while he was outsourcing. lol
He also thought he knew more than his doctors.
Yet he couldn’t figure out why Obama wasn’t business friendly.
Woz probably not rude enough to replace Jobs.
The more that comes out about him the less admirable he becomes.
Microsoft should “carpe diem” and hire Woz.
(and fire balmer)
The more I read about him, the more it’s clear that he was a complete psychological mess.
This is hilarious, Jobs for all of his brilliance, failed to see that Fox News is not conservative. They push as much sleaze and filth as the other networks and they are shilling even hard for the RINOs.
Why was this not news IF he said it before. This is what I hate about the press. They bring up stuff after a person is dead. If it was so horrible at the time then why not report it then and make him explain himself or say “yep that is what I said”.....either way it is stupid to bring it up now.
but but but.... just 3 years ago, dissent was Patriotic!
And not smart enough to take His Dr.s advice
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