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Rupert Murdoch, Overseer of Phone Hackering Criminality, Steps Down as Chairman
Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as Fox and News Corp Chairman
Rupert Murdochs’ many critics blame him for coarsening British culture, exercising undue political influence and overseeing criminality in the form of phone hacking.
BBC 22 SEP 2023
His advocates say that he gave a voice to the silent majority and locked horns with a crusty Establishment.
What he did with newspapers in the UK, he did with cable television in the US. FOX news took the media landscape by storm and, some charge, fanned the tribal politics that helped Donald Trump come to power.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, with his son Lachlan to head both companies.
In a memo to employees, Murdoch said "the time is right" for him to take on "different roles".
Murdoch, 92, launched Fox News in 1996. It is now the most watched TV news channel in the US.
Murdoch said he will transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus of both firms in mid-November.
"Our companies are in robust health, as am I. Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges," he wrote. "We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years - I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them."
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