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JimK's avatar

Isn't it a fact that Roger Ailes and Lachlan Murdoch were rivals? Sometimes when Fox News strays far from the path pioneered by Ailes, I wish that whatever remains of the Ailes faction would be restored to power. Am I correct that's even more unlikely now with Lachlan in charge?

And whose bright idea was it to put Paul Ryan on the Fox board? The anti-Trump vein is pumping hard throughout the Murdoch empire, especially on WSJ's editorial team and with Cavuto, Baier, etc. on FNC. Is Lachlan their friend at the top?

Another aging clot in the NewsCorp bloodstream is its remnant of old time religion. It thumps loudly when the WSJ Editorial Board or certain FNC personalities reference the abortion issue, bringing not "life" but certain and imminent electoral death to GOP recruitment of young voters. Will the Murdoch empire continue to lean toward the Catholic religious right, post-succession? Can secular conservatism now finally get as much play as those wearing a cross on-air, or that guy commanding viewers to "go to Church" just before their own best Sunday show begins?

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Rebecca Just Wagner's avatar

Lachlan was mentioned by Tucker Carlson often when he talked about his own role on the company and the efforts by enemies and rivals to remove him. The references were always favorable, making it sound, to me at least, that Tucker had an ally in Lachlan, one reason it was a shock for me, and I am sure for many people with my mindset, when Tucker was suddenly removed, such a betrayal I have not turned on the channel since. I wonder whether Lachlan will care enough about his alienated audience to make any moves to attract us back again, or whether we truly, as it seemed at the time of Tucker’s removal, mean nothing to the billionaire family? There are millions of us, disaffected and still angry.

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