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How Murdoch Runs Fox News, in His Own (Often Terse) Words

Read about Rupert Murdoch's emails that exposed the inner workings of his Fox media empire and how he interacted with powerful figures in the Republican Party.

  • In late 2020, Rupert Murdoch was holed up in the English countryside with his now ex-wife, far from Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.
  • The 'stupid emails' now make up an extraordinary paper trail that has exposed the inner workings of Mr. Murdoch's Fox media empire.
  • Murdoch posed a question to the editor of The Post: 'Should we say something Donald might see?'.
  • Murdoch offered careful edits for an editorial urging Trump to stop talking about voter fraud and to dump Rudolph W. Giuliani as his lawyer.
  • Murdoch sent an email to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott with the subject line 'Vaccine' and asked 'What if it happened two weeks earlier!?'.
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