Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, has stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp , ending a more than seven-decade career in which he created an empire spanning from Australia to the United States.
, ending a more than seven-decade career in which he created an empire spanning from Australia to the United States.
"But it's impossible to ignore the other side of that, where Fox News amplified toxicity in the US political environment, and other properties similarly impacted other territories.""Rupert Murdoch stepping down is the end of a media era that has had its fair share of controversy, including, most recently Fox agreeing to pay a $787.5 million settlement to voting machine company Dominion over its reporting of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
"The media world is unrecognisable from the one he stepped into seventy years ago and the decision to scrap plans to reunite his empire must have smarted."