‘Lachlan and Rupert, they’re not information guys. They care about media within the sense that it’s a driver of profitability.’
This text is a part of a sequence a few authorized risk despatched to Crikey by Lachlan Murdoch, over an article Crikey revealed concerning the January 6 riots within the US. For the sequence introduction go right here, and for the complete sequence go right here.
There’s a rising listing of Fox Information personalities and reporters who’ve fallen foul of the Murdoch enterprise by talking out towards it, however how they fare after that seems to be a product of their place within the prime-time pecking order.
In 2021, former Fox Information international correspondent Conor Powell instructed the ABC’s 4 Corners that Murdoch media was the “largest purveyor of misinformation on this planet”. Fox Information took umbrage with this system, as Crikey reported, however that displeasure didn’t lengthen to Powell. In his course, it didn’t bat an eyelid.
