Rupert is apparently upset since he turned Fox News over to his sons, Lachlan and James. It seems Lachlan is a Libertarian, while James, led by his lefty wife is a bad story. According to the story, it would seem that James & wife are now out of the picture.
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-ceo-suzanne-scott-151550946.html Here is a lefty biased article which still explains much;
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/06/fox-news-election-trump-murdoch/ This excerpt explains much..
"[ But the family’s ownership of its media properties is a 50-50 split between Rupert on one side and his six children on the other. The key progeny, when it comes to running the empire, have nearly always been
Kathryn Murdoch is James’s wife. In recent years, she and James have not hidden their political preferences: They made significant donations to the campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and later, Joe Biden, once he became the Democratic Party nominee. Earlier this year, after James lost a succession battle to Lachlan and resigned from his last remaining board position, he issued an oblique criticism of the political direction of the family’s holdings, but he did not say anything specific about Fox News and its central role in laundering white nationalist extremism and its related conspiracy theories."/color]
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IMO..the following statement by the writer, has to be a joke!
" the conservative Lachlan and his younger brother James, who is a centrist."
