Rupert's culpability

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Rupert's culpability

Reliable Sources CNN

Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy

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Indeed, Carlson is going full Infowars. The far-right host announced Thursday that, not only is he debuting a special Fox Nation docuseries promoting 1/6 trutherism, but he is making it his "first ever week-long event" starting Monday. Carlson released a new trailer for the special week of programming that claimed he will expose "the lies" about the attack on the US Capitol. He hinted he will promote the notion that "other groups" were involved in the violence.

It's all deranged stuff that belongs in a dark corner on the web. It really is indistinguishable from the type of material that fringe right-wing characters like Alex Jones and The Gateway Pundit serve up to their audiences. The only key difference, really, is that Carlson has a much larger audience, is far more influential within the GOP, and has a billionaire media mogul backing him.

Perhaps, as I asked Thursday in this CNN article, the billionaire media mogul is a 1/6 truther and election denier himself. That would explain why he is enabling Carlson to peddle conspiracy theories to the masses. It would also explain why he didn't stop The Wall Street Journal from publishing Donald Trump's lie-filled letter to the editor this week. I asked his spokesperson these very questions, but didn't hear back.

The only other explanation is that Murdoch doesn't care about the incalculable damage he's doing. Maybe he just doesn't care about millions of minds being warped by all the toxic lies his stars promote, so long he is able to profit off of it and throw glamorous parties where he can laugh it up with his powerful friends. 

Neither are great options. That said, the latter is worse and also the much likelier of the two scenarios...

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[luv2fly]

1. Yeah he doesn't care

Only about money.

[Budi]

2. He cared not a wit about who or what he damaged

He was always untouchable by the sheer lifetime of dirt he'd gathered on everyone along the way.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Rupert IS the Devil 👿. No fake one could have done more damage.