"Rupert (Murdoch) wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

[bodysong]

"Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

Fox News Had Stormy Daniels Story Before 2016 Election but Killed It Because Murdoch Wanted Trump to Win

3/4/19

Fox News had the story of a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels to silence her claims of an affair with Donald Trump shortly before the 2016 election but opted not to run it, according to a report from The New Yorker, Monday.

according to The New Yorker magazine

Fox News reporter Diana Falzone had evidence of a relationship between Trump and Daniels and of the proposed payment before Americans went to the polls in 2016. After Fox delayed the story, Falzone said she was eventually told by FoxNews.com head Ken LaCorte: “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.”

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-stormy-daniels-donald-trump-1350819

The New Yorker Verified Account
@NewYorker

.@JaneMayerNYer on Fox News’ transition from partisanship to propaganda

4:00 AM - 4 Mar 2019


Jane Mayer Verified Account
@JaneMayerNYer Replying to @NewYorker

Trump promised publicly he wouldn't interfere in DOJ's handling of the TimeWarner AT&T deal - but in Oval Office he ordered Nat.'l Economic Council head Gary Cohn to get DOJ to block it, which would hurt CNN & help Fox. Soon after, DOJ filed suit to block it, and lost in court.

4:39 AM - 4 Mar 2019

Born Yesterday

(1950)

I don't think that Harry should talk
to you like that. You're a senator.
Well, the operation of government
is... complex.
I don't think anybody
should talk to a senator like that.
- A senator's a wonderful thing.
- Thank you.
It seems to me
that if Harry pushes you around,
he's pushing around
the millions who voted for you.
Well, not quite that many.
How many, then?
Eight hundred and sixty-three thousand,
four hundred and thirty-four.
That's a lot of people
to push around.
Why do you let him?
Who voted for him?

 

[bodysong]

source

"The Making of the Fox News White House "

The New Yorker magazine

Jane Mayer

blurb from Daily Kos

Jane Mayer brings us news regarding the nexus between Trump and Fox News and how FOX has finally reached State TV status. Ailes gave Trump debate questions in advance, FOX buried the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election and they also use NDA’s to force people working there into silence. According to Mayer’s reporting things at FOX have become worse since Ailes departure. Without Ailes, the star talent is running the place with no restraint. It seems power went from Ailes > Shine > Hannity. And perhaps the scariest part of all is how Trump’s Justice Dept is catering specifically to FOX/Murdoch’s interests.



Hannity had warned that it would be “the total end” of Fox News if his friend Shine were ousted. But, with O’Reilly and Kelly gone, Hannity was in his strongest position yet: he was now Fox’s top-rated star, and Trump’s highest-profile promoter. He’d taken Kelly’s 9 p.m. slot and was getting even higher ratings—some three million viewers a night. Two months after Shine left Fox, Hannity became a matchmaker, arranging a dinner with the President at the White House, attended by himself, Shine, and Scaramucci, at that time Trump’s communications director. Hannity proposed Shine as a top communications official, or even as a deputy chief of staff. A year later, Shine was both.



The story is superbly written and worth the read. Please support The New Yorker for this reporting. Mayer ties a lot together in this piece and leaves me wondering how corporate sponsors can keep running ads on FOX.

https://www.dailykos.com/user/Seashells/rss.xml

Some excerpt from article at Daily Kos

(Surely, a map of the symbiotic relationship.)