May 5, 2023 --
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The online title of the very inaccurate piece by Jeremy W. Peters, on the aftermath of the Fox-Dominion settlement was:
"A Chastened, Humbled Fox News? Don't Count on It." The print title of this wrong New York Times story was: " After Lawsuit, Fox is Unlikely to See Changes." Except a sea change at Fox was announced the very day this wrong story appeared in the Times: the departure from Fox of Tucker Carlson, up to April 21 (his last show), a Fox mainstay.
Peters projected onto Fox News that mindset of The New York Times, in his fourth paragraph, saying that Fox can't be expected to become "humbler or gentler." |
Among what proved to be inaccuracies by Peters, consider this: assertion: "In the immediate term [of the Fox-Dominion settlement. Rupert] Murdoch seems unlikely to make any major changes at any of his Fox properties." Dumping Carlson wasn't a "major" change?
LPR's take: The 92-year old Murdoch has not absorbed the lesson of Anheuser-Busch's disastrous experiment with Bud Light (and maybe, too, the bankruptcy of Bed Bath and Beyond after boycotting M Pillow's Mike Lindell) that the Silent Majority -- a/k/a MAGA Nation -- responds to woke business practices. Watch, now, as the ratings for Fox News plummet to CNN and MSNBC levels. |
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