Fox Owner Murdoch Denounces “Woke Orthodoxy”

The New York Times reports:

The media mogul Rupert Murdoch denounced an “awful woke orthodoxy” and declared, “I’m far from done,” while accepting a lifetime achievement award this weekend.

Mr. Murdoch, 89, made the remarks in a prerecorded video shown on Saturday during a virtual event for the United Kingdom nonprofit that honored him, the Australia Day Foundation. The video was shared on the website of The Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne owned by Mr. Murdoch.

The video is noteworthy because Mr. Murdoch, despite exerting enormous influence over the global media landscape as the executive chairman of News Corp, has been relatively quiet publicly in recent years.

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Last week Fox laid off its longtime political editor because the president got mad at him but do go on about the perils of cancel culture https://t.co/zJ7Y4mtJ5f

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 25, 2021

How fitting that Fox “News” is firing the political editor that got Arizona right. https://t.co/mrVfyRO702

— Thomas Lin (@7homaslin) January 20, 2021