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The Right tightens its grip on UK media Murdoch’s new TV channel prepares to join fight against ‘liberal’ BBC
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upert Murdoch is ensconced in the UK. He is a US citizen, but was one of the first to get his Covid vaccine jab in mid-December at a doctor’s surgery near his South Oxfordshire home in England where he is isolating with his wife, Jerry Hall Murdoch. After the furore following the
mayhem at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, his mind is now focused elsewhere. Fox News faced a stark choice in the light of President Donald Trump’s defeat and the January 6 storming of the Capitol that was hugely blamed on his – and the network’s – constant lies about election fraud costing him the election. As the network became more
and more enmeshed with Trump over the past four years, several veteran network journalists departed, while current and former employees became increasingly critical of its coverage. After Fox laid off members of its ‘Brain Room’ research department last autumn, Fox staffers told the Daily Beast website that the network was acting “more like an extension
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