Rupert Murdoch, owner of media giant News Corp, is getting heat from his son James over the climate change denialism that’s being churned out by the mogul’s right-wing news outlets.
I really need to start watching Succession, don’t I?
Snakes on a plane.
I would be happy offering the Murdoch family a good real estate deal on the planet of Venus
(at its equator)
This is good news because conservatives almost never, ever, change their minds until they are personally affected, and a family member is sort of personal when it comes to conservatives. I don’t think much will change but it’s a tiny little crack in that old evil man’s control over the future of Fox News.
We get various reports of dissension within upper levels of management at Fox News, but there’s never any discernible change.
The outright lies, the race-baiting, the blind Trump-supporting “personalities”, and the sexual harassment of staff seems to continue unabated.
So far, there’s been no recognizable change in their approach.
Their suits fit as badly as Trump’s. Maybe that’s the core base of support!
Fox News has infamously invited numerous guests who have spread misinformation about climate change and attacked climate action advocates
The sad fact is the climate crisis is much worse than even the experts realized, given refined models.
Murdoch must either hate his children intensely or be so corroded by greed to squander the resources at his disposal on the production of lies and untruth.
The 2018 California fires apparently came close to Ruperts mansion. Nothing like having climate change personally impact your life to influence your views but he’ll still let his media circus act go unabated.
Anything to bring down the Murdochs and their loathsome neo-fascist propaganda machine.
Maybe you don’t: the evil old man outwits everyone all the time. However, it’s a great show.
And people don’t listen to the experts anyway. It seems that many of our politicians manage in order to fight their own personal demons (what is the ratio of well-balanced, sane people to disordered f**wits at higher levels of office around the world?) rather than to solve actual problems. How can you fight climate change when fighting a blow to one’s ego is at stake?
Anyway, I think we’re just going to keep on doing what we’re doing until the planet rightly smacks us down. Management by catastrophe. If Rupert Murdoch’s own son can’t persuade him to change his business model of selling climate denial, what hope do the rest of us have?
Rupert doesn’t seem to be demented like someone else, but he’s still likely unable to think clearly. He’s also build an entire corporate edifice wired for climate denial, so there’s not all that much he can do in the short term. He’d have to fire half his “talent” and bookers.
I suppose this is good news, but I’ll have more confidence when the new generation of Murdoch’s take steps to address the grotesqueness of their so-called news and commentary programming.
As far as I can tell, people don’t watch Fox News to see what anyone named Murdoch has to say. They watch for Hannity and Carlson and Ingraham and Pirro, etc.
And Rupert and his sons know those are the ones who bring in the dollars.
It will first take an awakening in their viewers’ understanding of climate change before Fox will move toward full-on reporting and discussing the truth. Fox News won’t be pushing for that understanding before they get it and accept it from other sources.
Rupert will always go with where the money is at. And right now he’s created and maintained an operation that generates discord, confusion, and money. Plus at his age being considered an influencer must be how he gets his jollies.
So, just a tiny little bit…
The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that James and his wife Kathyrn, both outspoken advocates of climate action, are upset by how the news organizations controlled by News Corp, such as Fox News and especially newspapers in Australia, have cast doubt on the existence of the climate crisis as bushfires ravage Murdoch’s native Australia.
Murdoch has denied that News Corp employees do not believe in climate change.
“There are no climate-change deniers around, I can assure you,” he said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in November.
In both cases, I just have to point out, the article’s about a dispute between James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch. So which Murdoch does each of these statements refer to?
In the first case, it could easily be either. They’re all Aussies. Just make it ‘the Murdochs’ native Australia’. (There’s more to be said about a paragraph that’s a single 4-line 52-word sentence, but we’ll ignore that. Edit: I lied[1]. Too pedantic and it upsets my editor-ness. Sorry.)
In the second… is it Rupert insisting nobody at Fox is trying to spread misinformation? Is it James using that as ‘Christ, Dad, even your employees don’t believe this bullshit’? We have no idea, even from the context of the pre-/succeeding grafs.
I know there’s a lot going on, but please, this isn’t a ‘BREAK THE STORY NOW!!!’ article. Take the time to copy-edit.
1. rewritten, took 20 seconds:
The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that James and his wife Kathyrn are upset by how the news organizations controlled by News Corp have cast doubt on the existence of the climate crisis. The criticism of Fox News and especially News Corp-owned newspapers in Australia comes as bushfires ravage the Murdochs’ native Australia. Both James and Kathryn Murdoch are outspoken advocates of climate action.
Good - I have no illusions about Fox. But if they were to institutionally change their stance on climate change, it could help tilt the scales mightily.
If only Rupert Murdoch would retire, James Murdoch can tell Fox “News” and other right wing propaganda organs owned by News Corpse to stop peddling climate change denialism. Will he?
Son? I have no son!