
Bad News: How Murdoch and Fox are wrecking US democracy
The Prospect Podcast
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The Battle Between Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's Flagship Channel
Rupert Murdoch's flagship channel depended on the Trump movement for its success. Fox News had created a state-of-the-art exit poll service system to give it an advantage in calling states accurately first and very early on called Arizona, which contributed 11 votes to the Electoral College who required 270 to win for Biden. So in traditional journalistic terms, it was a really good moment for Fox News is that actually dispatched its journalistic duty. But the Fox News audience almost instantly went crazy. They really, really couldn't believe that of all the channels and all the news platforms that they might have been looking at and reading and watching, Fox would call Arizona for Biden. And so instantly from that moment
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