September 13, 2025
Fox Remains in Conservative Hands
Timothy Birdnow
Gooed news! Fox News will not fall into the hands of the leftist Murdoch kids, but will remain with Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's son and hand-picked heir to run the conservative media empire. Lachlan is definitely right of center.
The three lefties - Prudence, Elisabeth, and James Murdoch agreed to a cash buyout of their interests, dissolving the trust Rupert foolishly put them in. (Rupert tried to dissolve it before but the courst wouldn't let him.) Lachlan is the only one of these spoiled little limousine liberals who thinks like an adult, and he's now in control of Newscorp.
Each of the siblings will get $1.1 billion for their shares in the corporation.(Nice workwhen you can get it.)
So Fox isn't wholly lost to us. On the other hand it's gone to the center at a minimum so it's rather a pyrric victory, but at least it won't turn hard left.
But then, maybe the loss of Fox would have seen us get serious about taking control of other major media outlets. I hope we don't rest on our laurels with this.
Gooed news! Fox News will not fall into the hands of the leftist Murdoch kids, but will remain with Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's son and hand-picked heir to run the conservative media empire. Lachlan is definitely right of center.
The three lefties - Prudence, Elisabeth, and James Murdoch agreed to a cash buyout of their interests, dissolving the trust Rupert foolishly put them in. (Rupert tried to dissolve it before but the courst wouldn't let him.) Lachlan is the only one of these spoiled little limousine liberals who thinks like an adult, and he's now in control of Newscorp.
Each of the siblings will get $1.1 billion for their shares in the corporation.(Nice workwhen you can get it.)
So Fox isn't wholly lost to us. On the other hand it's gone to the center at a minimum so it's rather a pyrric victory, but at least it won't turn hard left.
But then, maybe the loss of Fox would have seen us get serious about taking control of other major media outlets. I hope we don't rest on our laurels with this.
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Fox has always billed itself as "Fair and Balanced," although I don't suppose one could say it was ever "middle of the road." But so far it's doing pretty well, after having shucked off useless people like Geraldo Rivera and people who started out great and went off the rails, like Tucker Carlson. And I'm not quite sure where to put Megyn Kelly.
Now if they could just get rid of that nincompoop Juan Williams!
Now if they could just get rid of that nincompoop Juan Williams!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 13, 2025 09:59 PM (qL1rE)
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Williams is a complete fool and it's actually a disservice to the Left to have him champion their cause. But you have so many others there who are liberal - like Kennedy, for instance. Conservatism IS balance given the whole rest of the media is liberal.
I've seen a decidedly leftward trend at Fox over the last few years. They aren't liberal but they are centrist now, and that will probably get worse over time. Sure, you still have Hannity and Gutfeld and the like but will they replace these guys with true conservatives if and when they move on?
That's why we need a good, strong conservative network, not just say we have Fox and go on to other things.
At this stage I doubt Fox News would hire Rush Limbaugh if he were alive and willing. They would say he was too radical.
I watch a lot of Salem News these days (they used to have Charlie Kirk's show) which features a lot of good guys like Dinesh D'Souza, Larry Elder, Jay Sekulow, and my favorite Kevin Jackson.
But it's really just an opinion network, not really news. And it's underfunded so it's kind of amateurish at times. (Although I love their news babe Haley Bianco, who is built like a brick outhouse.)
I also watch NTD, which is associated with the Epoch Times,but it's a little to Chinese for me. They do a lot of Chinese cultural stuff.
We definitely need a major, proudly and unapologetically conservative news outlet. Fox ain't it.
I've seen a decidedly leftward trend at Fox over the last few years. They aren't liberal but they are centrist now, and that will probably get worse over time. Sure, you still have Hannity and Gutfeld and the like but will they replace these guys with true conservatives if and when they move on?
That's why we need a good, strong conservative network, not just say we have Fox and go on to other things.
At this stage I doubt Fox News would hire Rush Limbaugh if he were alive and willing. They would say he was too radical.
I watch a lot of Salem News these days (they used to have Charlie Kirk's show) which features a lot of good guys like Dinesh D'Souza, Larry Elder, Jay Sekulow, and my favorite Kevin Jackson.
But it's really just an opinion network, not really news. And it's underfunded so it's kind of amateurish at times. (Although I love their news babe Haley Bianco, who is built like a brick outhouse.)
I also watch NTD, which is associated with the Epoch Times,but it's a little to Chinese for me. They do a lot of Chinese cultural stuff.
We definitely need a major, proudly and unapologetically conservative news outlet. Fox ain't it.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 14, 2025 07:12 AM (dptnQ)
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I think you miss the point about Juan Williams; the fact that he's such an utter fool makes the Left look bad.
Can you get Newsmax? They are conservative all the way. I must say we don't care for Greta Van Sustern, but that's probably because she has kind of a crank-mouth, which is unfortunate for her.
Can you get Newsmax? They are conservative all the way. I must say we don't care for Greta Van Sustern, but that's probably because she has kind of a crank-mouth, which is unfortunate for her.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 14, 2025 11:42 PM (qL1rE)
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