Fox News may have taken the ‘Never Trump’ movement to heart according to recently published reports.
Michael Wolff, journalist for the Hollywood Reporter, wrote a column in which he described conversations he had with the late Roger Ailes, CEO and founder of Fox News.
Within the report, Ailes allegedly confided to Wolff that Rupert Murdoch, the executive chair of Fox News, instructed him to “tilt to anyone but Trump.”
The assumption being that what Murdoch wanted tilted was Fox News’ coverage and, by extension, the election.
Worse, in a conversation before Ailes was forced out at the network, he indicated that Murdoch’s request to “tilt to anyone” truly meant anyone, “even Hillary.”
Via the Hollywood Reporter:
It was Ailes’ tacit support of Trump that, in part, made his removal from Fox all the more urgent for the Murdochs. And it was not just the liberal sons who were agitated by Ailes’ regard for Trump, but also the father, whose tabloid, the New York Post, helped create Trump, but who found him now, with great snobbery, not of “our” conservative class.
(“When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?” Murdoch senior tweeted the day after Trump officially declared himself a candidate.)
Murdoch instructed Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump, Ailes confided to me before he was fired, even Hillary. (Ailes, for his part, characterized Murdoch’s periodic efforts at interference as similar to Nixon’s instructions to bomb this or that country — best ignored.)
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Here is the above referenced tweet …
When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let
alone the whole country?— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) July 19, 2015
According to Wolff, Murdoch was forced to tuck his tail between his legs after the election and seek out friends of his ex-wife, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to repair his relationship with President Trump.
New strains in that relationship have resurfaced recently, however.
Reading the Murdoch tea leaves: First NY Post’s Don Jr. “idiot” editorial, then Sun leak, and now WSJ criticism https://t.co/qj7EhOnAKA
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) July 18, 2017
Mordoch’s newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, have grown increasingly critical of the President.
A recent editorial claimed that Washington “will destroy Mr. Trump, his family and their business reputation unless they change their strategy toward the Russia probe.”
Murdoch and his sons have been accused of moving the network in a more leftward angle, with rumors that they were involved in pressuring Sean Hannity to temper his commentary on the Seth Rich case, and speculation that they were also behind the firing of another major star, Bill O’Reilly.
Do you think Fox News ’tilted’ their coverage away from Donald Trump during the election? Tell us what you think below!
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The Left Wing Liberal Democrats and the ROOT OF ALL EVIL, MONEY, has completely turned our American democracy political system straight to HELL, AND THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL WILL IT EVER RECOVER AGAIN….ALL YOU LIBERAL’S ARE LOSER’S..!!!!!!
Johnny…. Money is not the root of all evil. Its the LOVE of money that is. Money in itself can be a very good thing.
You news agency people need to take up knitting to keep your sanity from imploding all over your shorts and then your shoes. It will make some goofy looking tracks coming out of DC office buildings!
Hell Fox against trump – what TV are you watching ,have you seen CNN over the last year or any other MSM outlet , mind you all Jew owned just doing there job & you no what that is
ROFLMAO! Even Murdoch knew this guy would be a disaster!!
And the AMERICAN people now know that Murdoch is an idiot. And now we know you are also; Fred. You NEED to go and see how much OUR President has already made for OUR country. Such an idiot Liberal you are. Right along with the REST of them.
I saw too much tilting by Fox and the WSJ. We had to cancel our WSJ subscription that we have had for the last 20 years. If you don’t support my president, you don’t get my business.
Fred – I bet you had ugly things to say about Murdoch before…you’re only being a talking parrot of the liberals – do you poop all over your house too? Why is it that liberals have NO idea how to read, listen and discern for themselves? Oh, that’s correct, they don’t have the ability to read anything but liberal propaganda…something in their genes…or they just can’t understand REASON…
This says how much influence principals in news organizations actually have.
“Tilt” means use influence regardless of facts. Were Murdoch or Bezos elected by anyone to have such power in our political system? The answer is no and they along with the Hollywood celebrities should keep their opinions to themselves and let the facts alone speak. This whole Russia influencing our elections is a farce and the jerks perpetuating it should have to answer for the distraction away from what really matters in our country.
You are absolutely right Ancient Mariner! Rupert Murdoch is another one of the criminal globalist proponents of the New World Order (NWO). FOX news is no different than the other 6 mainstream media networks owned by the globalist’s & influenced by the corrupt CIA. You won’t get “real news” on ANY OF THOSE STATIONS. The Russian collusion story is nothing but a distraction to take people’s interest off the true big story which is pedophilia. Trump & Putin are both trying to put a stop to this evil, vile crime. This is also the reason Scalise was shot.
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/putin-exposed-pedophilia-plot-destroy-america-body-language-reveals/
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/cabal-exposed/breaking-many-elite-headed-prison-child-sex-trafficking/
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/07/pizzagate-flashback-deep-state-still-trying-to-shut-down-the-alt-media/
You’ve got that right, but I will never understand how anyone would want to support the liberal,, socialist left and that is what you are doing if you don’t support my President.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Bill O’ Reilly and friends were to buy a new conservative cable channel and start their own network! I would leave FOX in a flash.
as soon as the new conservative channel shows up, good bye fox!!!
I agree, I don’t like the Murdoch and his kids act, it is getting to be a scary place. this has nothing to do with good people that work there.