- Dan Primack, author of Axios Pro Rata
Nov 20, 2023
Lachlan Murdoch, who last week succeeded his father Rupert as chairman of both Fox Corp. and News Corp., over the weekend traveled to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Fox News remains the most powerful source of information for Republicans, a majority of whom have soured on continuing to fund Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Details: Murdoch was accompanied by two reporters who work for his companies, Ben Hall from Fox News and Jerome Starkey from the Sun.
- Hall, who in early 2022 was severely injured while reported from the warzone in Ukraine, sat with Zelensky for an interview that Fox News plans to air on Tuesday night’s episode of “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
- Hall also met with service members who assisted in his evacuation.
- Murdoch, who declined comment via a Fox spokesperson, is said to have previously spoken with Zelensky and other Ukrainian government officials via Zoom back in March.
The bottom line: It’s unclear what was discussed between Murdoch and Zelensky, or how Moscow will react to the visit.
Of note: News Corp. is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, whose reporter Evan Gershkovich has been imprisoned in Russia for the past eight months on disputed espionage charges.
Some grounds for cautious (very) optimism here. Could this mean a change of direction over to good instead of evil?
Fox has been promoting pro-Russia lies from at least the time that Tucker Carlson joined.
Still working for them: the equally vile Laura Ingraham and Rebekkah Koffler. Still guesting : the obnoxious lying Nazi Col Douglas Macgregor.
They still have one pro-Ukraine presenter: Mark Levin.
As for Hannity, he flips according to the wind.
I don’t care about the channel having negative Ukrainian anchors just that they have an equal number of pro Ukrainian anchors. It’s the imbalance that I think is detestable
The difference between a pro-Ukraine presenter such as Mark Levin; who simply presents facts and comments on them and scum like Ingraham is that the latter presents lies, hate and propaganda masquerading as news info.
“lies, hate and propaganda masquerading as news info”
We know that it’s Faux News – that seems a bit redundant.
“information”
I would call it misinformation and propaganda.
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If there is balance meaning pro Ukrainian anchors truth will always win out IMO