Media scion James Murdoch strikes deal to purchase New York magazine and Vox | PBS News

James Murdoch, a former CEO of 21st Century Fox who resigned from the board of News Corporation in 2020 over differences about content and direction, is known to hold less conservative views than his father...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/media-scion-james-murdoch-strikes-deal-to-purchase-new-york-magazine-and-vox 

 

How Rupert Murdoch helped to build brand Trump (The Conversation podcast)

Donald Trump’s lawyers are pushing to get Rupert Murdoch deposed, and quickly.

The US president is suing the billionaire media owner, alongside the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones and others, for libel after it published an article alleging that Trump once wrote a “bawdy” birthday letter to the convicted sex offender, the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump is seeking US$10 billion in damages. In a court filing in late July, his lawyers asked the court to order a swift deposition, citing Murdoch’s age at 94.

Trump and Murdoch have a transactional friendship that goes back decades. Despite past tensions, this rupture is something new in a relationship that has continued to serve both men’s interests.

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, professor of journalism Andrew Dodd at the University of Melbourne takes us back to where their relationship began in 1970s New York, to understand how Murdoch helped to build brand Trump.

Murdoch was already a very successful media magnate in Australia and the UK before he made his move to America. In 1976, after dabbling in two newspapers in Texas, he bought the New York Post.

“ Murdoch wanted to make it big in the US and to do that he really needed to break into New York,” says Dodd. US television networks were all based in US, he explains, “so by influencing what was going on in Manhattan, he was influencing the entire country’s media.”

Meanwhile, Trump was a young property developer from Queens. “ He’s wanting to develop and build, and he’s also wanting a profile because the profile will help him along the way,” says Dodd. “But he’s also an egomaniac. He needs publicity for its own sake, and so he’s attracted to the media.” Trump became easy and frequent fodder for the new Page Six gossip column of Murdoch’s New York Post.

Dodd says that both men saw in each other “opportunities for their own advancement”. For Trump, it was about access to notoriety. For Murdoch, a newcomer and foreigner in New York, he needed to make friends quickly and start establishing relationships. “He’s becoming ingratiated with power in the city, and so they’re all using one another,” he says.

Listen to the conversation with Andrew Dodd about Trump and Murdoch and the power they now wield over each other, on The Conversation Weekly podcast. You can also read an article Dodd wrote, with Matthew Ricketson at Deakin University, on the Trump and Murdoch lawsuit.
Interview: 

https://theconversation.com/how-rupert-murdoch-helped-to-build-brand-trump-podcast-262158

 

What's next for Fox News now that Rupert Murdoch has stepped down? (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

In Network of Lies, author Brian Stelter describes behind-the-scenes turmoil at Fox News following the 2020 election, and speaks to the network's future under the leadership of Rupert's son Lachlan.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212878519/whats-next-for-fox-news-now-that-rupert-murdoch-has-stepped-down

Fox News hit with election complaint after Biden ad given to Trump son-in-law

"… If you try to get around that disclosure law … by giving something that is the equivalent of money, that you would need to spend money on, or that could be considered something of value for a political campaign, you're either not supposed to do it or it's supposed to be disclosed. And it's pretty clear."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/fox-news-federal-election-commission-complaint-trump-collusion-rupert-murdoch

 

Fox Knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4IfTsCFAQY

The other way Rupert Murdoch tried to tip the scales for Trump - The Washington Post

"During Trump's campaign, Rupert provided Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about [Joe] Biden's ads, along with debate strategy," the filing reads. In a parenthetical, it explains some or all of that confidential information as "providing Kushner a preview of Biden's ads before they were public."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/trump-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-biden/

Dominion Lawsuit Reveals Fox and Murdoch Knew Trump's 2020 Claims Were Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhqKuYEDzg

Is Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Fox News?

Months of accumulated testimony are expected to put Murdoch, the chair of Fox Corp, in the difficult position of either having to deny he has control over what happens at his most influential US news operation or defend its campaign to promote the biggest lie in US electoral history...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/11/rupert-murdoch-fox-dominion-lawsuit-deposition

Rupert

The billions Rupert Murdoch has made are only a fraction of what he has cost American democracy. But he did get one thing right: America IS watching. And we've seen enough.
https://youtu.be/sWYIqwJqKbE

William Barr told Murdoch to 'muzzle' Fox News Trump critic, new book says | William Barr | The Guardian

The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book

“I Can’t Get the A--hole off the Phone”: In Michael Wolff’s Newest, Everyone—Even Rupert—Thinks Trump Is Beyond Crazy - Vanity Fair

Siege is overflowing with botched initiatives, bragging about sexual conquests, Trumpian insults, and ally after ally who, privately, can’t stand the president while publicly going along. Even Mueller is no hero.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/michael-wolff-siege-everyone-thinks-trump-is-crazy#~o

The Incredible Shrinking Fox News - POLITICO

Don't believe the hype. Rupert Murdoch and friends can't re-elect Trump by themselves.....
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/09/fox-news-rupert-murdoch-226612

Tucker Carlson on Rupert Murdoch in 2010 Radio Segment: “I’m 100 Percent His Bitch” - The Intercept

"I only have, you know, American, white servants," Carlson said in 2009. "It's not because I'm racist, it's because I'm not. It's because I feel better beating them." ...
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/12/tucker-carlson-tapes-rupert-murdoch/

Enough platitudes: Let’s name names - The Washington Post: Opinion

Let's end the lazy thinking and the moral denseness. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/29/enough-platitudes-lets-name-names/

Officials Warned Jared Kushner About Friendship With Wendi Deng Murdoch: Report | HuffPost

The meeting was described to The Wall Street Journal as a “routine senior staff security briefing.”....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-wendi-deng-murdoch_us_5a5d2ab8e4b0fcbc3a12b9ed

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal pulled editorial detailing Trump's mob ties: report -- Raw Story

Billionaire right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal delayed and then killed an editorial revealing Donald Trump's mob ties, Esquire reported. WSJ editor Paul Gigot, delayed an editorial by Ted Cruz supporter James Freeman until after Trump was the presumed nominee. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/murdochs-wall-street-journal-pulled-editorial-detailing-trumps-mob-ties-report/

Why Fox News just can't quit Donald Trump - YouTube

Fox News and Donald Trump are having a public love affair, but their relationship is less of a romance and more of a hostage situation....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMIgnw2FPU