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YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times, Sky News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful Billionaire in the West

The former Prime Minister of Australia said politicians are frightened of him:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/feb/19/australian-politicians-frightened-murdoch-media-beast-kevin-rudd-video

JD Vance recently flew across the United States to meet him in his mansion:

https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-montana-visits-rupert-lachlan-murdoch-d4f040113968ea5d702061cac6129ee4

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He's a fucking ghoul that has been influencing opinion in the anglosphere for many years. He's got too much control over the media in the UK, US, and Australia.
- Not just media - he directly has a hand in shaping governmental policy.
  By his own admission, that's why he dislikes the EU so much - they don't pay enough attention to him.
  
  Murdoch is one of the first people Trump entertained in the oval office when he took over this round.
  
  he has a hand in australia too, one of his propaganda channels, Australia sky news, is meant to trick people into thinking its the british/UK sky news. its almost always that creepy indian lady as the anchor.
  
  Unfortunately, that niche is filled by axel springer, instead of just being empty
- His father was an S-tier douchebag as well. And he started his douchebaggery in fucking WWI!
- Could be the plot of a James Bond movie… wait
Boycott...
Fox News
The New York Post
The Sun
The Times
The Sunday Times
Sky News
The Wall Street Journal
Comedy Central has better reporting.
- Apparently I have been for many years
  
  Yeah it's easy to do because those outlets all suck
  
  Just like my decades long boycott of Nestlé is FINALLY gaining traction.
  Atta BOY!
- John Oliver is far better and he's not even a journalist.
- It's a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn't want the Governmental bias of the BBC.
  I wouldn't trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they're American, and the Americans can't be trusted these days either.
  I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can't believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we're being shown is the distraction from the thing they don't want us to look at.
  I wish I knew how to find the hidden "real news", but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that's just the image of them that the media wants us to see...
  :-(
  
  It seems only Sky News Australia is owned by Murdoch and not linked to Sky News UK.
- it seems also has control over the youtube channel of australian sky news.
- Bold of you to assume folks here pay for their news
This guy is an actual supervillian that somehow beat the whole world
YSK that he is also the most successful shriveled up testicle ever, and ironically he and his children are a bunch of "cunts" according to many Australians.
- lachlan is worst than he is, currently hes trying to cut his other children out of the will, so they cant potentially shut down fox, because the other children besides lachlan dont share his views.
- I dunno, James doesn't seem like a complete fuckwit
Technically he owns the majority stock in two mega media conglomerates that own these companies. Right now he and his children are fighting over ownership after he dies https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/12/the-guardian-view-on-the-murdoch-family-drama-moguls-death-could-imitate-art
- Their story is basicly the real life inspiration for succession
  
  Their story is basicly the real life inspiration for succession
He owns the Sun and the Sky? Is he gonna buy the Land next?
- No need, the Land already worships both.
It was first reported by The Guardian on 4 July 2011 that police had found evidence suggesting that the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire collected personal information about the family of the missing Surrey teenager Milly Dowler, following her disappearance in March 2002 and the discovery of her body six months later. According to the paper, journalists working for the News of the World had hired private investigators to hack into Dowler's voicemail inbox shortly after her disappearance. It was alleged that they had deleted some messages, giving false hope to police and to Dowler's family, who thought that she might have deleted the messages and therefore might still be alive and potentially destroying valuable evidence about her abduction and any evidence against a potential abductor and murderer.
News of the World belonged to him, until this scandal shut it down.
Owns more than just that. Owns the entire Dow Jones as well, which explains a lot.
he's garbage but sky news (uk) is owned by comcast not rupert these days; sky news australia is still owned by him though
he does own talktv though.
- Cocmast is not exactly better than Murdoch, though. Enshittification is a null-sum game.
He is the mainstream media.
I never cease to be amazed that Rupert Murdoch is still alive. Truly a terrible injustice that time has not yet seen fit to take him from this world.
- His longevity may be attributed to a simple misinterpretation: "That is not dead which can eternal lie".
- A patient person with a sniper rifle could be an option.
  Obviously I'm not advocating this type of action, obviooooouuuusly. I'm merely saying that he probably doesn't have the same type of protection that a world leader enjoys soooo...
Apparently Lachlan is son is even worst than he is, hes a true believer of trump. and hes trying to cut his other children out of his will, and give it all to Lachlan, because them not on the same page of conservatism, could threaten his FOx news company. Another fun fact, he seperated fox from his other news sites, so they arnt liable if fox gets sued.
BUT SOROS!!!
Checkmate Atheists!
It will be interesting once he dies. Iirc his kids (3 of 4) inheriting his estate don’t have the same vision as him.
- There are those who will inherit the assets and there's the one just like his dad who is in line for his dad's role and will take over the constant money supply.
Most powerful billionaire in the west has real wicked witch vibes
I don’t know how relevant it is anymore, but I recommend watching the documentary Outfoxed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed
Given the lawsuit orange fuckface filed last week, I expected to see the day's biggest news that Bondi informed cheeto dick he was in the files literally anywhere on foxnews, but it was all Obama treason this, Hillary emails that. Weird to think Murdoch wants to use one media arm to fight aussie dirt dingle, but not them all.

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