Former Murdoch exec slams Fox News over vaccine misinformation

[rooboy]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Washington: One of Rupert Murdoch’s former top executives says Fox News has cost lives by turbo-charging hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccines among conservative Americans.

Joseph Azam, a former senior vice president at News Corp in New York, said he saw a “straight line” between the vaccine-sceptical rhetoric of some of Fox’s most prominent hosts and entrenched resistance to vaccines in large swathes of the United States.

“I think Fox has been almost single-handedly responsible for the politicisation of public health in the US and the creation of vaccine hesitancy in a significant portion of the population,” Azam told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/former-fox-news-exec-slams-network-over-vaccine-misinformation-20210717-p58ain.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Turdoch can join Diarrhea Donny

on the list of negligent homicide perpetraitors who are screwing the USA over with their lies

[The Wizard]

2. Darwin was right.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Another douchebag bravely speaks out after he is no longer getting paid.

[speak easy]

4. He left Fox in 2017.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705441083/former-murdoch-executive-says-he-quit-over-foxs-anti-muslim-rhetoric

[thesquanderer]

5. The current outrage is about facebook...

...and FB is a real problem, but I think fox is worse. Compared to anonymous posts on Facebook, Fox and their hosts have an additional veneer of legitimacy. It's much more than bias comfirmation (which I think is the core appeal of FB posts)... people actually trust these people. Unfortunately, I don't think the Biden administration will be willing to go after Fox the way they've been outspoken about FB.

[Initech]

6. Fox News is a terrorist organization!

[flying_wahini]

7. Yes, like News Corp hasn't the Very Same thing.

He is as guilty as the others. Where was he last year?

[TeamProg]

8. Advertisers need to leave, victims' families need to sue. Yes, there just may be a class-action

lawsuit vs. Fox News / NewsCorp just in time for the 2022 election.