Did Rupert Murdoch Say Fox News Only Cares About Ratings, Not Facts?

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Did Rupert Murdoch Say Fox News Only Cares About Ratings, Not Facts?
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According to this rumor, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch once said, 'I started Fox News to get rich ... we are not journalists. We are entertainers. We are here for ratings and advertising revenue.' Here's what we found in our research.

and a series of quotes ostensibly uttered by him about the journalistic practices, or lack thereof, of his network started to circulate on social media:The above-displayed meme contains a number of eye-popping admissions that would have certainly made headlines if they were real. However, we were unable to find sources for any of these quotes.

While these quotes are certainly fictitious, we’ll take a look at how they measure up to reality. In all cases, these quotes are based on grains of truth and distorted with exaggerations. The first quote deals with how Fox News handled election night on Nov. 3, 2020. The fake Murdoch quote reads: “Our dilemma on Nov 3rd, 2020: If we announce on Nov. 3rd that Trump lost then we will see a 50% drop in viewers and we will lose millions in advertising fees.”

While various Fox News hosts did perpetuate the so-called “big lie” , no major news outlet was able to declare a winner in the 2020 presidential election on election night . The race wasn’t called until several days later. On Nov. 7, Fox News joined The Associated Press, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, and ABC News to declare Joe Biden the next president of the United States.“We created a fake story that ‘Biden stole the elections’ to keep our low IQ viewers returning every day. It worked.

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