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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - Rupert Murdoch and the Future of Fox

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

At 92, Rupert Murdoch is retiring and handing the reins over to his son. Will Lachlan Murdoch watch over a period of managed decline—or will he chase the audience Fox News has been losing to the even-more extreme right?


Guest: Nicole Hemmer, Director of the Roger Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.


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is it news when a ninety two year old man retires it shouldn't be probably but

0:51.3

when that man is rubert murdoch it is the mastermind behind a conservative media

0:59.6

juggernaut did not announce he was retiring with a splashy interview or not

1:04.3

bad but Nicole himmer a historian of conservative media says that does not

1:09.8

mean Murdoch went quietly can we talk about the letter rubert Murdoch sent out

1:16.6

he should be sure can this letter was just a page long sent out to Murdoch

1:24.2

staff most of it was the usual I'm proud of what we've done here stuff then

1:29.4

it got into the battle for freedom of speech and freedom of thought he wasn't

1:35.0

content to simply say like it's been a good run and I'm handing the keys over

1:38.6

to my son Locklin content is not a word that we normally associate with

1:43.4

for good reason I mean he took it as an opportunity since he knew that the

1:48.0

world would be watching when this news broke to take a spike at the elites who

1:54.0

run media isn't he an elite who runs media yes it's it's pretty rich

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