Biden called Murdoch the 'most dangerous man in the world,' new book alleges By Brian Stelter, CNN Business April 4, 2022 New York (CNN Business)In a forthcoming book, a pair of New York Times reporters and CNN political analysts report that President Joe Biden "assessed" Fox News "as one of the most destructive forces in the United States." The reporters, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, say that Biden was even more critical of Fox Corp patriarch Rupert Murdoch. According to the book, Biden told an unnamed associate in mid-2021 that Murdoch was "the most dangerous man in the world."......... https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/03/media/reliable-sources-biden-murdoch-fox-news/index.html
Elon Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter. Sharing freedom is a danger to corruption. Murdoch-Fox is uni-party sellout. Biden fears the honor of sitting in the real Oval Office. He rather just go home to his basement.
Murdock has damaged to ruined every country he has operated in with his catering to the lowest nature, winning formula. The before and after of the UK, particularly England and Wales is as bad as the USA in relative terms. Australia his homeland, also buggered.
Lachlan Murdoch sends legal threat to Crikey over January 6 article By Zoe Samios August 14, 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/business/com...y-over-january-6-article-20220813-p5b9ll.html Lachlan Murdoch has threatened (Australian) news website Crikey with legal action over an article that suggested he and his media mogul father, Rupert Murdoch, were responsible for the riots at the US Capitol in January last year. The article, written by Bernard Keane and published in June, made comparisons between the Murdoch family and former president Richard Nixon’s role in the Watergate scandal. Lachlan Murdoch is demanding an apology from Crikey for the third time in three years.Credit:AP Titled “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor and Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator”, it alleged Lachlan and Rupert, through their control of right-wing TV network Fox News, were to blame for the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which attempted to prevent the congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. Multiple media sources, who requested anonymity to speak freely on the matter, said Lachlan Murdoch has issued a concerns notice and fired off multiple legal letters to Crikey since June. The article has already been taken down from the website and various social media platforms, but lawyers are continuing to negotiate. Murdoch is demanding an apology for the claims, which he says are defamatory. A spokesperson for Murdoch was unavailable for comment. Crikey editor-in-chief Peter Fray said: “Crikey and its publisher Private Media are sick of being intimidated by Lachlan Murdoch.” Allegations of involvement in the January 6 riots are a sore point for the Murdoch family. While high-profile commentators on Fox News have been blamed for encouraging Trump supporters, media outlets in the US including The New York Times have published articles about Lachlan Murdoch’s snubs of former president Donald Trump and reports published in recent months say he is scathing of the January attack. In July, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal (both owned by the Murdoch family) published blistering editorials about Trump’s actions concerning the January 6 riot, when at least seven people died. Rioters stand outside the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.Credit:AP Last December, the select committee investigating the riot revealed that Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade urged a senior Trump aide to get the president to act against the riot. Meanwhile, a US Congressional hearing last month heard that Trump was watching live footage of the riot on Fox News as it happened, ignoring pleas from his family and advisors to step in. Rupert Murdoch, who is not an Australian citizen, is widely known not to sue for defamation. However, Lachlan Murdoch is more litigious and this is not the first time he has demanded an apology from Crikey. In April last year, Crikey deleted an article by its founder, Stephen Mayne, which made claims about Murdoch’s tenure as a board member of Channel Ten. Fray said at the time that Mayne had made a series of mistakes in the article and had agreed to “keep the current apology on the homepage for 14 days”. It cost Crikey $14,000 in legal costs and was settled between the two parties. Crikey was also forced to apologise in September 2020 for likening Murdoch to an organised crime figure. In 2012, Lachlan Murdoch settled a defamation case against Fairfax Media, the previous publisher of this masthead, over an article that ran in The Age’s CBD column about his alleged use of News Corp’s corporate jet. He donated the $50,000 settlement to charity. Murdoch, who is the CEO of Fox Corp and a non-executive chairman of News Corporation, is facing two major lawsuits in the US from voting machine companies that are seeking billions of dollars in damages over claims that Fox News’ lies about the 2020 election destroyed their businesses.
Egging Jan 6th is low hanging fruit. Brexit, Iraq war, withdrawing support for Syria, Israel apartheid, multiple race mass shootings, draconian immigration policy, and unleashing the orange turd on this nation are just a few of their sins.
Why I’d write an even stronger story today about Murdoch, Fox and Trump It's a simple fact that the Murdoch family, via Fox News, helped create the conditions for the January 6 insurrection in the United States. And it's important to say it. Bernard Keane Aug 22, 2022 https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/22/lachlan-murdoch-letters-calling-out-murdochs/ This article is part of a series about a legal threat sent to Crikey by Lachlan Murdoch, over an article Crikey published about the January 6 riots in the US. For the series introduction go here, and for the full series go here. Approaching the two-year anniversary of his election defeat, Donald Trump still has the Republican Party tightly in his grip. After FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago property recently, the GOP collectively went berserk. From senior senators to lunatic fringe congresspeople, allegations of politicisation, persecution, dictatorship and even threats of civil war flew thick and fast. And among Trump’s media supporters? One veteran media analyst described the coverage on Fox News as “downright sycophantic”, saying: “Just like when he was in the White House facing scandal, the network’s top personalities have rushed on air to portray Trump as the victim of shadowy, deep-state forces who are corrupt enough to use the levers of governmental power to damage him.” The FBI search related to serious allegations that Trump — who remains the favourite to seize the 2024 Republican nomination — had retained top-secret documents from his time in the White House, including signals intelligence and nuclear weapons information, a clear violation of the law. The reaction was even more febrile outside the Republicans. Calls for armed attacks on the FBI and civil war were widespread online. One Navy veteran, a man long convinced the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump, was killed after trying to attack the Cincinnati FBI field office. As we saw with the deaths that occurred during the January 6 insurrection, propaganda and misinformation lead to people getting killed. How has America arrived at a democratic cliff-edge, from which civil war or widespread terrorism is not impossible, nor the reelection of a discredited, criminal authoritarian? The reasons are complex. I’ve been writing about them for years now — including a book on the circumstances that gave us Trump, Brexit and widespread disillusionment with democratic politics, and another book on the lies of Scott Morrison, Boris Johnson and Trump. They include the continuing fallout from the financial crisis; the impacts of neoliberal policies on employment, inequality and community bonds; the endless wars following 9/11; and the social changes that have undermined — to a degree — the once pre-eminent social status of white heterosexual men. But in that toxic mix is another cause: the Murdoch family and their “media” companies. It’s no exaggeration to say that Fox News is an existential threat to US democracy. Its entire business model has been to stoke, amplify and feed a perverse sense of victimhood among its target audience of older white Americans — the most privileged people on the planet — and convince them they and the values they hold dear are under threat. The source of that threat? “Liberals”, Blacks, migrants, feminists, LGBTIQA+ people, the “woke”, Democrats, climate scientists, and moderate Republicans, among others. The mechanism of the threat? An amorphous plot by these “elites” to destroy the American way of life and freedom. Fox News was present at the creation of the Tea Party movement. It was a vehicle for its bastard offspring, the birther movement. Then it went all in for Trump. Inevitably, it became a vehicle for pandemic and vaccine denialism. This pandering to grievance and promotion of division meant it commanded the biggest cable TV audiences in the US and made billions for the Murdochs. Support for the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump was an inevitable next step, especially when it became clear that angry Fox viewers would move to even more extreme platforms if Fox wouldn’t deliver. As one US media observer wrote, having radicalised its audience, Fox then became radicalised by its audience. And this was all done, as so many critics and commentators in the US have observed, with the full knowledge of and encouragement by the Murdochs. If anything, Crikey was decidedly late to pointing out something plenty of American media figures — and the voting machine company Dominion — have been pointing out since January 6 2021. This isn’t the only issue on which the Murdochs pose a significant threat to the public interest. Not merely in the US, but in Australia as well, News Corp has been the speartip of climate denialism, working assiduously with right-wing politicians and fossil fuel companies to deny the existence of climate change, demonise climate action, and discredit those who have called for action. Just ask James Murdoch, who expressed his disgust on the issue after the Black Summer bushfires. The Murdochs, their staffers in the propaganda outlets they own, and their supporters will all insist they merely support free speech. As we’ve seen demonstrated over and over in Australia, the News Corp idea of free speech is free speech for them and their allies and for the views they endorse. But should anyone use free speech to express a viewpoint News Corp disagrees with, or to attack News Corp’s allies, then they risk becoming the target of a torrent of vicious public attacks. Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Roz Ward. Gillian Triggs. Robert Manne. Paul Barry. Julian Disney. Just to name a few. At News Corp, free speech is for punching down, never for punching up. It’s for speaking power to truth, not truth to power. Now, to repeat the fact that the Murdochs, via Fox News, encouraged the rise of Trump, supported him directly during his disastrous presidency, peddled over and over the Big Lie of the stolen election, sought to downplay the January 6 insurrection and even now to give succour to him, is to offend the sensibilities of Lachlan Murdoch. Crikey’s mission has always been to hold the powerful to account and to call out those who do not act in the public interest. It’s in ready fulfilment of that mission that we called the Murdochs Trump’s unindicted co-conspirators in relation to the events of January 6. And fulfilling that mission has never been more important, not with the United States teetering on the brink. If the Murdochs don’t like being associated with the direct results of the propaganda spewed out by their outlets, the solution is simple. Rather than suing, they should return those outlets to being genuine vehicles for journalism, not division and propaganda.
New York Post: Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper turns on Donald Trump with ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ front page The tabloid has backed Mr Trump since 2016 presidential election, with the scathing depiction suggesting a new direction for conservative media in the US The New York Post mocked ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ on its front page this morning after the US midterms (Photo: New York Post) By Connie Dimsdale November 10, 2022 The New York Post – a newspaper owned by Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch – has turned on Donald Trump with a front page mocking the former US president as “Trumpty Dumpty”. The tabloid has backed Mr Trump since he was nominated to run in the 2016 presidential election, with the scathing depiction suggesting a new direction for conservative media in the US. Mr Murdoch’s media empire instead celebrated the landslide success of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who beat his Democratic challenger with 59.5 per cent of the vote. The Post offered the headline “DeFUTURE” alongside a picture of Mr DeSantis celebrating the victory with his family. Murdoch-owned news broadcaster Fox News paid significant attention to his victory. The rising Republican star was re-elected as state governor by a landslide with almost 20 points over his competitor, fuelling speculation that he could launch a White House bid. The Republicans were expecting a “red wave” in the midterms, but it turned out to be more of a trickle, with many of the candidates endorsed by Mr Trump failing to win seats. The right-leaning New York Post, run by Mr Murdoch’s News Corp, offered up a blistering editorial piece called “Toxic Trump”, with author John Podhoretz waging a direct attack. Paying particular attention to Democrat John Fetterman’s Senate victory in Pennsylvania over Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz, he wrote: “What Tuesday night’s results suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history.” The Post appears to have turned on Donald Trump once and for all (Photo: New York Post) The attack also leaked onto the front cover, with the headline “Trumpty Dumpty” – a clear play on words of the children’s nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” who famously “had a great fall”. The publication criticised Mr Trump for failing to extend the Mexico-United States barrier, as he promised to do on the 2016 election trail, with the front page reading: “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall – can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?” The Republicans – sometimes known as Grand Old Party (GOP) – have gained seats in the midterms, but not as many as expected. It’s an accepted rule in US politics that the President tends to lose seats in the House during their first midterms, with Trump losing 41 and Obama losing 68. The tone of the front page and editorial suggest a change of direction in the US conservative media, particularly as News Corp also controls Fox News – the most influential right-wing news network in the US. However, Mr Trump and Mr Murdoch were previously understood to have been friends and close allies, with Fox News and the New York Post, often pushing Mr Trump’s narrative. Murdoch outlets have faced legal challenges for repeating Mr Trump’s allegations that the 2020 election was stolen, despite no evidence to suggest that this was the case. Their relationship has long been described as a friendship of convenience, but cracks began to show after Mr Trump failed to stop the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch were understood to be friends and allies (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty) The paper published an editorial saying: “As a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.” Similar critiques also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, another Murdoch-owned title in the US. In June this year, the Journal blamed Mr Trump for the storming of the Capitol and urged its readers to “look forward” to other candidates for 2024, including Florida governor Mr DeSantis.
My own idea all along was all Donny ever wanted was to be like his hero Barron Hilton. He tried to copy the man unsuccessfully of course. Had he taken up flying like his older brother or Barron Hilton we would of course have been rid of Trump years ago, any competent pilot can tell you he would killed himself quick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barron_Hilton