A former executive for Fox News’ parent company said he left the corporation due to negative, “demonizing” coverage of Muslims.
In an interview with NPR, Joseph Azam, a former senior vice president at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., said he wasn’t the only person “fundamentally bothered” by Fox’s fearmongering coverage of Muslims and immigrants.
“Scaring people. Demonizing immigrants. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country,” Azam, who also worked as a senior compliance officer for the company that owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins publishing house, told NPR.
“While News Corp. is technically separate from the corporate parent of Fox News,” the report noted, “they are both controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family.”
The former executive said his stomach was turned by comments from some of his corporate colleagues that saw “Muslims derided as threats or less than human; immigrants depicted as invaders, dirty or criminal; African-Americans presented as menacing; Jewish figures characterized as playing roles in insidious conspiracies.”
He added that those attitudes were present across Murdoch’s media empire, “especially on the popular opinion shows of Fox News, including Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, and Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs.”
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These are prime examples of what has been said in other posts on this board today, about how an irresponsible, constant, repeated, rotten dialogue, can ruin one's mind and lead to some of the beliefs we see in some of our board's posters. This produces extremist views and is totally irresponsible from a so called news organization. It needs to be reigned in. Instead, it continues because it provides "good" ratings and higher revenues.
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In an interview with NPR, Joseph Azam, a former senior vice president at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., said he wasn’t the only person “fundamentally bothered” by Fox’s fearmongering coverage of Muslims and immigrants.
“Scaring people. Demonizing immigrants. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country,” Azam, who also worked as a senior compliance officer for the company that owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins publishing house, told NPR.
“While News Corp. is technically separate from the corporate parent of Fox News,” the report noted, “they are both controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family.”
The former executive said his stomach was turned by comments from some of his corporate colleagues that saw “Muslims derided as threats or less than human; immigrants depicted as invaders, dirty or criminal; African-Americans presented as menacing; Jewish figures characterized as playing roles in insidious conspiracies.”
He added that those attitudes were present across Murdoch’s media empire, “especially on the popular opinion shows of Fox News, including Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, and Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ex...-jeanine-pirro/?utm_source=push_notifications
These are prime examples of what has been said in other posts on this board today, about how an irresponsible, constant, repeated, rotten dialogue, can ruin one's mind and lead to some of the beliefs we see in some of our board's posters. This produces extremist views and is totally irresponsible from a so called news organization. It needs to be reigned in. Instead, it continues because it provides "good" ratings and higher revenues.
SAD
