The Post ran two opinion pieces on Friday that assumed Trump would likely lose.
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Fox News and the New York Post, the main media for tycoon Rupert Murdoch, began to distance themselves from Donald Trump as the drama of the U.S. election count continued – a first since the president took office and a potential turning point.
On Thursday night in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump supporters bluntly shouted “Fox News Sucks” in reference to the news outlet seen as fiercely loyal to the president for five years.
Fox News infuriated Trump and his people on election night by calling Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner called Murdoch to no avail in an attempt to withdraw that appeal. Other media were reluctant to call the state the battleground for Biden as the ballot count continued.
Since that night, Fox News has very carefully sidestepped allegations of massive electoral fraud coming from the Trump campaign and the man himself.
“We just haven’t seen it. It hasn’t been introduced to us,” Fox News anchor Brett Baier said on Friday.
So people are wondering if Fox News, which helped bring Trump to power in 2016, is ditching him as Biden gets closer to the magic number of 270 electoral votes that would see him win the White House.
Jeffrey McCall, professor of communications at DePauw University, said Fox News has always had a dual identity: on the one hand, star presenters who are more columnists than reporters, and on the other, a newsroom. much more measured.
Some Fox reporters, like Chris Wallace, who was the moderator of the first Trump-Biden debate, are highly respected professionals.
On the editorial side opposite is Fox star Sean Hannity, who is very close to Trump and said Thursday night: “Americans have every right to be wary … to be wary of legitimacy. results.”
McCall said the way Fox News had treated Trump since the election and its early Arizona call for Biden show that the more serious side of the network was trying to “operate as independently as possible from the opinion section and even of property “.
“These people have their own journalistic standards that they want to meet.”
But Reece Peck, who wrote a book on Fox News titled “Fox Populism,” said the distancing could alienate some viewers and cause them to switch to another news source, like OAN, a new, ultra-conservative little outfit. and extremely pro-Trump. .
Behind Fox News, which drew 14.1 million viewers on US election night, is of course Murdoch.
The 89-year-old media mogul is known for his conservative views, but in recent months has come to terms with the idea of a Biden victory, according to the Daily Beast.
Still, said McCall, “I guess the Murdoch family aren’t calling into the newsroom telling Bret Baier how to cover certain types of stories.”
‘The political winds’
Murdoch’s other American outlet, the New York Post, might be “a closer reflection of Murdoch’s views politically than even Fox News,” Peck said.
He said Murdoch has a lot more control over this tabloid than Fox News.
As the vote tally continues and the world waits to hear the winner’s name, the Post has not adopted any of Trump’s statements about the fraud and the election stolen from him.
Just days ago, just before the election, he didn’t hesitate to publish an article that said Biden’s son Hunter, on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, had sold the access. to his father, then vice-president of Barack Obama.
The Post published two opinion pieces on Friday that assumed Trump would likely lose the election.
“Murdoch sometimes, you can feel him figuring out where the political winds are going,” said Peck, who teaches at the City University of New York (CUNY).
And Biden is a centrist Democrat he could endure.
“Biden is not a big threat to the business world in the United States,” Peck said.
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