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LAS
EDIT: More is going on than just Giuliani and his son.
"Its not just Giuliani. Senior Trump aides have found it difficult to get bookings on Fox News or even coverage of stories that are damaging to their enemies or positive for Trump." Politico
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/24/scoop-fox-to-rudy-youre-banned-494458
pwb
(11,205 posts)fucking nuts and he lies like a rug. The law suit may be why?
brewens
(13,397 posts)evening shows, he's three sheets to the wind.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)got nothing to do w the fact that everything comes out of his mouth being a lie.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)stopdiggin
(11,092 posts)perhaps because he is a gibbering pathetic mess - that even the base regard as off putting and unbelievable?
lame54
(35,138 posts)LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)LAS14
(13,749 posts)"Its not just Giuliani. Senior Trump aides have found it difficult to get bookings on Fox News or even coverage of stories that are damaging to their enemies or positive for Trump." Politico
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/24/scoop-fox-to-rudy-youre-banned-494458
Tetrachloride
(7,724 posts)Ocelot II
(115,279 posts)about Dominion or anyone else that might have a credible libel claim, and they don't want to provide a platform that would justify naming them as a defendant along with Rudy.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Which has to mean Rupert Murdoch. Maybe he's done with Trump, at least for now.
Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)He runs the network now and isn't a fan of Trump by all accounts.
Now that Trump's devolved into full discredited crazy outside of his rump, he probably sees the opportunity to distance. When Trump was president, it wasn't possible.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)He took over running Fox News about three years ago. I read conservative/right-wing news and blogs often enough to know that they loathe Lachlan. Absolutely hate.
Pretty interesting Vanity Fair blurb about him from two years ago.
James Murdoch, son of Fox News founder and conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is planning to invest around $1 billion in media companiespossibly including a liberal-leaning outlet. As the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, the 46-year-old, a former 21st Century Fox chief who is also expected to use his more-than-$2 billion haul from the sale of the companys entertainment holdings to Disney to fund a comic-book publisher, has long played the role of black sheep of the Murdoch dynasty: left-leaning and, according to The New York Times, increasingly troubled by Fox News in the age of Donald Trump. But the possibility of funding a rival to the right-wing empire that made his father a household name could represent a new course for the younger Murdochand a complication of the Murdoch legacy.
Sources with direct knowledge of Jamess plans told the Financial Times that he wanted to distance himself from the conservative media outlets controlled for decades by his father but had yet to decide how exactly he would invest in the news media. They added that he was eyeing a range of options, and that the process was at an early stage. (The F.T. could not immediately reach James Murdoch for comment.) The potential move would in part reflect the complex family dynamics between Rupert, James, and Lachlan Murdoch, the latter of whom recently took over at Fox. James had long sought to run the company, but struck out on his own last year after the reins were handed to his brother.
The report also embodies shifting political attitudes among a new generation of Murdochs. Rupert, the right-wing kingmaker, is a close ally of the presidenta regular Fox News viewer who at times has seemed to use his office to help the network and hurt its rivals. But Lachlan, now the chair of the Fox Corporation, is a libertarian conservative who doesnt like Trump, as one of his associates told my colleague Gabriel Sherman. That has some MAGA fans inside Fox concerned that the older Murdoch will lead the network in a less Trumpian direction. Trump himself has in recent days expressed disappointment in his beloved channel, tweeting Tuesday that it was weird to see Bernie Sanders in a Fox-hosted town hall, and questioning the networks hiring of former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile. Whats with @FoxNews? Trump asked, slipping in a telltale we in his earlier tweet.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/rupert-murdoch-liberal-son-james-takes-shot-at-fox-news
LAS14
(13,749 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)Also in the mix is Smartmatic's $2.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, which alleges complaints of a similar nature, citing that the channel granted Giuliani a platform to spout unsubstantiated claims about election fraud. Fox has since filed a motion to dismiss Dominion's lawsuit and is also urging a court to shoot down Smartmatic's.
Giuliani, for his part, has backtracked somewhat on his claims of election fraud, saying back in August that his claims were "substantially true," while admitting that he didn't understand how Dominion's voting software works. Earlier that month, a 2018 deposition transcript was unveiled in which Giuliani effectively admits to the FBI that he had used Fox News to promote "fake news" about Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 election.