Three of the most destructive events of my lifetime could not have happened without the toxic influence of Fox Corp. and News Corp.
ByThe year 2023 will be remembered as the media year that Logan Roy died and Rupert Murdoch retired. Yes, the real-life right-wing media mogul
, leaving his even more right-wing son Lachlan as the sole guy in charge of the Murdoch family’s global media empire.But while Roy’s fictional death in “Succession” merely deprived us all of one of the best characters in television history, the 92-year-old Murdoch’s retirement leaves behind a very real wake of destruction. It’s difficult to sum up Murdoch’s unremittingly toxic and pernicious record, to encapsulate the sheer power of Murdoch to do damage to our politics, our media, our world.
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