Chris Hayes: Rupert Murdoch “is ultimately responsible for what Fox News says and does”
Hayes: “Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable damage to this country and the world over the course of his career”
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From the October 29, 2021, edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): The most powerful person in conservative America is 90-year-old Rupert Murdoch himself, not an American. He's the founder and executive chairman of News Corporation. He controls Fox News, the overwhelmingly, almost monopolistically, powerful right-wing cable channel where the vast majority of conservatives get their news. Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable damage to this country and the world over the course of his career, and he is ultimately responsible for what Fox News says and does.
Rupert Murdoch is the person responsible for all of the anti-vaccine nonsense coming out of Fox that has led to untold thousands of unnecessary deaths. He is responsible for the increasingly dangerous rhetoric around January 6th that Fox News is spewing that essentially seeks to either excuse the insurrection or to dismiss it as some kind of false flag conspiracy, somehow perpetrated by the federal government itself. In fact, that is the topic of a special documentary series from host Tucker Carlson debuting on Fox's streaming service next week.