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Rupert Murdoch to step down as chair of Fox, News Corp. - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
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Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Rupert Murdoch will step down as board chair of Fox and News Corp. and be succeeded by his eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, the companies announced Thursday.

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[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Means nothing, his son will take over and is just as bad, if not worse than pops.

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 5 points 1 year ago

Well, hopefully he's more inept than pops.

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck you Rupert.

You make me ashamed to be Australian.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Don't feel bad. When he fucked off to the U.S he renounced his Australian citizenship.

Clearly being a megalomaniac was more important to him.

[–] Caradoc879@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Let the Murdoch world raping continue!

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

That entire family needs to go off world.

[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Hopefully it's due to ill health

[–] DulceMaria@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Did he die on the plane yet?

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit, maybe we can get musk to buy fox.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If he did, I can see the next few things following immediately after:

  1. Rebranding to X News
  2. Adding the news segments as videos on X (formerly Twitter)
  3. Pushing the news on users, much like he pushes his own Tweets
  4. Dropping cable television broadcasting because the FCC and regulations go against his "free speech absolutist" values.