Rupert Murdoch spent decades injecting poison into his viewers' --and was lost how to rein them in

[winetourdriver01]

The court documents filed Monday in the lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News revealed many details of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's conversations around the 2020 election and the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack.

Addressing the new information, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell described Murdoch as Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster of his audience and Donald Trump that he must figure out how to control.

"Fox News, very busy pivoting," Murdoch wrote in an email to a former Fox executive. "We want to make Trump a non-person."

"But he can't be caught by his Trump-loving audience in his effort to make Trump a non-person," said O'Donnell. "As he makes clear, in a later email to his son, saying 'Fox News,' which called the election correctly, is pivoting as fast as possible, 'we have to lead our viewers, just not as easy as it might seem.' He spent decades injecting poison into his viewers. Poison that he refused to take himself, and when he wanted to nudge his viewers away from Trump, he did not know how to do it. And he did not blame any of his primetime entertainers for not even trying to."
He cited an email between Murdoch and former Speaker Paul Ryan, who now serves on the board of Fox News. The CEO called it a "wake-up call for Sean Hannity, who has been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers."

Read more:

https://www.rawstory.com/rupert-murdoch-poison-viewers/

[NJCher]

1. Rupert and the republicans

Think they are cooks. Throw a cup of mustard over that slab of pork. How about some Coca Cola, too. Next up a bottle of blue cheese salad dressing; dump that in. Ooh, look, we’ve created an orange monster.

And nobody wants it.

[live love laugh]

2. Poor Rupert.

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[DFW]

3. Rupert Murdoch, the sorcerer's apprentice

"Die ich rief, die Geister, die werde ich nun nicht mehr los." --Goethe

"The spirits I have summoned, I can now no longer be rid of them."

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Why isn't the FCC investigating this?

And the advertising clients are indirectly to blame for their support.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. The FCC regulated broadcast only, not cable.

[inthewind21]

9. Same reason

The EPA isn't.

[harumph]

6. His tepid objections to content are the thinest of fig leaves.

[The Magistrate]

7. As Has Been Said, Sir

"Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

[Chainfire]

8. A News organization indeed:

"Fox News, very busy pivoting," Murdoch wrote in an email to a former Fox executive. "We want to make Trump a non-person."

[Midnight Writer]

10. Just like the Republican Party and the conservative movement as a whole.

They used stunts to appeal to the cranks, and now the cranks have taken over and don't realize that the stunts are mere theatre.