Rupert Murdoch, whose family controls the Fox Corporation, described his challenge with Trump as “navigating” the delicate balance between truth and “crazy.” Fox leaders wanted to break from Trump but struggled to make it happen:
Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of the Fox Corporation, in New York, Nov. 1, 2018.
Ever since Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign in 2015, Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News Channel have struggled with how to handle the man and the movement they helped create. The leadership of Fox and its star hosts are often viewed from the outside as power brokers in Republican politics — with much justification. But in the wake of the election, they appeared fearful of alienating Trump’s supporters, almost to the point of powerlessness, court filings containing internal communications and depositions show.
Eleven days after the election, for instance, Lachlan Murdoch became irritated watching Fox News correspondent Leland Vittert’s reporting on a pro-Trump rally in Washington, considering it too critical. Murdoch called Vittert’s coverage “smug and obnoxious” in a message to Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media. Scott responded that she was “calling now,” to direct someone to relay the message to the correspondent and his producer.
The elder Murdoch also told Scott to get rid of a senior Fox News manager, Bill Sammon, telling her that it would go a long way with the former president’s core supporters. “Maybe best to let Bill go right away,” he told Scott on Nov. 20. Sammon ran the network’s Washington bureau and oversaw the unit that was responsible for Fox’s early — and correct — decision to project that Biden would win Arizona. That call had infuriated Trump and his supporters.
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