Murdoch has a media machine that defends Trump after a grand jury indictment

Murdoch’s Tweets on Fox News: How Rupert Murdoch and the media confront Donald Trump in the wake of the Trump Indictment

That was the short but powerful headline on The New York Times’ scoop Thursday afternoon that surprised the former president, sent newsrooms into a flurry, and set into motion a historic and uncharted course for the country.

CNN devoted hours of programming to coverage on the major development while breaking news mode was in motion, after the news sent convulsions through the media.

Murdoch was bashed by Trump earlier this month as a “MAGA Hating Globalist RINO” and accused of “aiding & abetting the Collapse of America.” And, recently revealed messages Murdoch sent in the aftermath of the 2020 election showed that the right-wing media mogul believed that Trump was a danger to the country.

That’s just a tiny taste of some of the extreme rhetoric that aired Thursday night on Fox News, where Murdoch’s stable of right-wing hosts and commentators painted an ugly portrait of America, one in which supposedly George Soros-controlled prosecutors target conservatives in an unjust manner for the sole purpose of destroying opponents of the Democratic Party.

The newsletter was the first to contain a version of this article. The evolving media landscape is chronicled in the daily digest.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board referred to the indictment of Trump as a sad day for the country. The editorial suggested that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had carried out the action for political purposes.

“There is no doubt that Mr. Bragg is doing what most Democrats want,” The WSJ’s editorial board wrote. They want Mr. Trump in the dock and at the center of the debate. They think he will become the Republican nominee even if he doesn’t get convicted. He’s the easiest candidate to beat because he motivates Democrats and divides Republicans.

The New York Post also appeared in Trump’s corner. A story on Bragg was featured on the outlet’s website.

Emails that lawyers for Dominion have used to build their defamation case give a peek into how Rupert Murdoch shapes coverage at his news organizations.

The released messages in the case shows that the network was scared of its audience changing the channel if they were critical of Trump. He is almost certainly looking after his bottom line.

The lawsuit shows how Fox employees laughed at the election fraud claims made by Donald Trump, even as the network amplified them to appease viewers.

A Fox News producer has filed lawsuits in New York and Delaware, accusing Fox lawyers of coercing her into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion case.

“It appears oxymoronic to call the statements ‘opinions’ while also asserting the statements are newsworthy allegations and/or substantially accurate reports of official proceedings,” Judge Davis said.

A Comment on ‘Electoral Fraud and the Dobbs-Fox Correspondence in the U.S. Capitol’

For example, in a “Lou Dobbs Tonight” broadcast on Nov. 24, 2020, Mr. Dobbs said: “I think many Americans have given no thought to electoral fraud that would be perpetrated through electronic voting; that is, these machines, these electronic voting companies including Dominion, prominently Dominion, at least in the suspicions of a lot of Americans.”

The University of Utah law professor said the judge had signaled that he disagreed with many of Fox’s arguments.