Murdoch turns on trump - somewhat

[empedocles]

' . . . The New York Post, the Murdoch tabloid that attacked Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter before the election, splashed a beaming Mr. Biden on its Sunday cover — “IT’S JOE TIME” — and described Mr. Trump as “downcast” and misguided in his efforts to claim the election was a fraud. The Sun, Mr. Murdoch’s outpost in London, reached new heights of Fleet Street ingenuity by comparing the president’s defeated visage to a crumple of skin on the actress Famke Janssen’s kneecap.

The Wall Street Journal, which had rejected The Post’s attack on Hunter Biden, has dismissed Mr. Trump’s fraud claims, and its conservative opinion page is nudging the president toward a gracious concession. Fox News — home to “Hannity” and “Fox & Friends,” instigators and nurturers of Mr. Trump’s rise — refused to retract an election night projection of a Biden win in Arizona despite intense pressure from Mr. Trump’s aides, who reached Mr. Murdoch in England to plead their case. . . . ''

[However, fox commentators hannity stick to their pro-trump opinions].

- NYT 11/10/2020

[Mike 03]

1. Interesting article.

The prospect of Mr. Trump starting his own media platform as a competitor to Fox News is often cited as a reason for Rupert Murdoch to keep the president close. But there are myriad hurdles before such a venture could get off the ground.

Mr. Trump, a connoisseur of traditional media, may balk at the sort of online-only service that the former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly pursued. Fox News is available in far more households than One America News, a right-wing network often cited as a potential vessel for Trump TV. Cable providers like Comcast and Spectrum would need to agree to carry a new Trump-oriented network, and regulations make it difficult for existing channels to abruptly change formats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/media/trump-murdoch-fox-news.html

Trump could purchase (or purchase a controlling share of) an existing network like Newsmax or OAN.

He's going talk about all sorts of plans, but in reality I think he'll be so overwhelmed by what's coming, and so tired from the last four years, that he'll just focus on defending himself against lawsuits and criminal indictments and attempting to salvage the Trump brand. I don't predict it will go well for him.

[empedocles]

2. If trump has to be forcefullly extricated from the WH, he may face very immediate

problems with the criminal justice systems - imo.