Three former executives of Fox say they now regret their role in setting the stage for the right-wing news network that’s come to dominate the media landscape today. “We all greatly admired Rupert Murdoch and his vision and bold efforts” at the time, they said. “We genuinely believed that the creation of a fourth competitive force in broadcast television was in the public interest.”None of the three ever worked for Fox News, but they expressed regret that the Fox Broadcasting Company they helped create led to the right-wing media network. “We never envisioned, and would not knowingly have enabled, the disinformation machine that, in our opinion, Fox has become,” they wrote, adding that the judge in the Dominion lawsuit found the network had spread false news. Advertisement“Fox did not appeal the decision but instead acknowledged it and paid nearly $800 million in damages to Dominion,” they wrote.

Source: Huffington Post July 13, 2023 20:48 UTC