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

Gawker ^ | October 25, 2011 | Ryan Tate

[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.

[af_vet_rr]

The only people “disillusioned” with Fox are the leftists who are upset they no longer control the news flow.

The PEOPLE love FNC.

The people also elected Barry Obama.

I know that when I want to know about Leann Rimes being skinny, Lindsay Lohan posing in Playboy, people going to Peru for spiritual healing, Denise Richards' breast implants, or Tara Reid's fake wedding, Fox News is exactly where I turn to. And yes, those are all front-page stories on FNC.

If Fox News wants to get a lot of FReepers back, they can stop pretending that such garbage is news and leave it to the tabloids. And Murdoch can stop promoting the homosexual agenda with the broadcast Fox channel.

[goat granny]

One person said he said Gates should have dropped acid. The apple cult is no different than any other cult that worships its leader...good old Steve dropped acid one to many times. Microsoft owns a percentage of Apple and Jobs is dead...Can one say egomaniac.

[mel]

What about Glen Beck TV?

[Niuhuru]

Maybe his new wife is secretly munching meat and actual milk rather than the organic stuff that she’s had to eat with Jobs. How much do you want to bet she’s hated the organic lifestyle?

[mel]

I read a salad was a bowl of carrots

[af_vet_rr]

What about Glen Beck TV?

It's a good alternative, but it needs to be expanded. It is an example for Conservatives to use as far as what can be done independent of the MSM (and FNC is a part of the MSM).

[VideoDoctor]

Jobs killed himself by harboring these NEGATIVE thoughts and feelings about FOX. Those NEGATIVE thoughts eventually manifested as CANCER within his body.

You reap what you sow. End of story.

[mel]

It is a start.