Lachlan's in the mire: Fox News case spells trouble for Murdoch heir

[kpete]

Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, who oversaw the network’s slavishly pro-Trump line, features prominently in evidence revealed in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit.

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In the days after the November 2020 election, Lachlan and his father kept in close contact with the CEO of Fox News, Suzanne Scott. When Lachlan was deposed by Dominion lawyers, he testified that he gave “specific direction on both the tone and narrative of Fox’s news coverage”.

According to Dominion, Murdoch admitted that he suggested which guests should appear on Fox shows, the content of those programs, and even specific questions to ask interviewees. He went so far as to criticize individual chyrons at the bottom of the screen, complaining that they were “anti-Trump”.

The thrust of Murdoch’s interventions, Dominion argues, was to rein back criticism of Trump and portray him in a more favorable light, in tune with the former president’s overwhelming popularity among Fox viewers. Ten days after the election, he told Scott to make sure that reporters were careful in their coverage of a Trump rally that was happening in real time.

“So far some of the side comments are slightly anti, and they shouldn’t be. The narrative should be this is a huge celebration of the president,” he said.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/11/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news-defamation-case

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[Achilleaze]

1. Lachlan lies like a Republican

He's a natural.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Pro-Trump Propagandist

Hope he ends up working for minimum wage in a Trump motel.

[2naSalit]

6. I hope he's prosecuted...

As an accessory to the coup.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Absolutely Guilty.

Co-conspirators in Treason.

[2naSalit]

8. Yup.

I feel confident that the SC Jack Smith is watching this, can't miss it. I suspect there will be subsequent charges against them. I want to see them go down hard.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. A Lachlan story.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Guy's directing a goddamn movie not managing the news.

[patphil]

5. All this does is reinforce the understanding that FOX isn't NEWS at all.

It's propaganda, plain and simple.
Their fake news was designed to ingratiate FOX with Trump's base, fueling the fires of the "Stop the Steal" lie, making them ready and willing to go to DC and invade the Capitol at the behest of their fearless leader.
FOX is every bit as responsible for what happened in the build up to J6 as Trump, and their actions after the insurrection were designed to hold onto their viewers by further supporting the "Big Lie".
And they're still doing it. Tucker Carlson couldn't air his current flavor of bullshit without Murdoch's approval.