Lachlan Murdoch 'doubling down' on right-wing strategy with Tony Abbott's nomination to Fox board

[Fresh Water Falling]

Source: The Guardian

Tory Shepherd
Sat 23 Sep 2023 06.08 BST

The endorsement of former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott for a position on Fox Corporation’s board by Lachlan Murdoch shows he is “doubling down” on the company’s “right-wing crusading”, critics say.

Murdoch welcomed the nomination in one of his first moves since being announced as sole chair of both Fox and News Corp this week following the retirement of his father, Rupert Murdoch, at the age of 92.

The nomination will be considered by shareholders at the media giant’s annual meeting in November, a media statement released on Friday (Saturday AEST) confirmed. Nominated alongside Abbott was technology executive Peggy Johnson.

Politics professor Chris Wallace, from the University of Canberra, said it “shows Lachlan doubling down on News [Corp’s] right-wing crusading when the costly lessons of recent and ongoing litigation suggest that’s not smart”.

“This confirms fears that decisions under the Lachlan Murdoch-helmed News Corp will be at least as noxiously right-wing as under Rupert - and possibly worse. For shareholders it’s a worry,” she said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/23/lachlan-murdoch-endorses-tony-abbott-to-join-fox-corporation-board-of-directors

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Really? I mean, is anybody who has willfully bought shares in this fascist propaganda outfit going to think twice about this latest injection of Pure Hatred into their ranks?/

[canetoad]

1. Abbot is a nut job

Known here as the Mad Monk.

[speak easy]

2. Not a idealogical move. He wants an Aussie,

so they can continue to fuck around with Australian politics.

[Lemon Lyman]

3. Vomit

Of course it was the half-assed decent son/brother (james?) who stepped aside a while back.

[onetexan]

4. This is sad. I thought Lachlan was more centrist than his crazed dad

[Roy Rolling]

5. Irony of Ironies

The corporation devoted to broadcasting election propaganda relies on an election to fill the leadership of its own company.

I’ve never said this to anyone but here it is: think about it.

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. I don't think Fux Nooze has any other options but to keep duping their idiot viewers

It's the only thing that makes them money since we have no patriotic loyalty from the crappy business that spend money to advertise on a misinformation prone russian sympathetic network. Otherwise, they might have to become a legitimate news network which would make them compete.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Not surprising...

My take is he's going to flush FoxNews right down the proverbial toilet.