Here in the states, his holdings now include Fox News, Fox Television Stations, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and HarperCollins , though he has sold off a number of properties, notably 21st Century Fox, New York magazine, the Village Voice and others.
At the network’s launch 1n 1996, Murdoch placed Republican operative and television producer Roger Ailes in charge of turning Fox News into the country’s No. 1 cable news operation. Ailes eventually succeeded, on the back of distorted and often false programming that vilified liberals and served as a mouthpiece for the Republican Party — essentially a glossy, televised version of a right-wing tabloid.
To tell the truth, they discovered, would have alienated a big chunk of their audience, which was already finding full-fledged election-theft coverage on other networks. Part of the narrative was that Dominion, which provided voting technology to multiple states, had participated in vote-flipping schemes to benefit Biden. In his deposition in the case,if he could have kept conspiracy-spinning voices off the network’s air. “I could have. But I didn’t,” he responded.