Backstabber Watch

Donald Trump’s idea of demanding Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch stop the network from airing “negative commercials” about him for the remainder of the election could be against the law, a CNN media analyst said Friday, adding that the former president’s comments show he is clearly bothered by the attack ads.

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox Corp., was reportedly compared to a "mafia boss" in his attempts to avoid being held accountable in a defamation suit.The comparison came from a hearing in a $2.7 billion defamation case which has endangered the news outlet, reports said.

US judge says he ‘would not quash’ subpoena from Dominion Voting Systems requesting testimony from mogul and son Lachlan

Fox News is likely to pay out a massive settlement to make the $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems go away, media consultant Richard Tofel wrote Wednesday on his Substack.

A fawning letter from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to one of the world’s top soccer officials in 2011 was read to jurors in a New York bribery trial to show just how much the network coveted the chance to win broadcast rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments.

The $2.7 billion Smartmatic defamation lawsuit against Fox News for pushing conspiracy theories about their voting equipment during the 2020 presidential election is heating up — and right-wing media titan Rupert Murdoch has now been deposed in the case, reported The Washington Post on Friday.

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti explained that a recent decision by the judge who will be overseeing Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox has painted the conservative network into a corner.

Newly leaked courtroom exhibits from Dominion Voting Systems are showing that Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch privately thought former President Donald Trump's election lies were "pretty much a crime." CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday appeared to be surprised by Murdoch's blunt assessment...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has lost control of his top-rated hosts at a crucial time for his Fox News network which has seen its credibility torn asunder by revelations they pushed 2020 election conspiracy lies while privately acknowledging they knew better.In a column for Bloomberg, 

Political strategist Chai Komanduri tore into Fox News on MSNBC Friday, accusing them of "arrogance" for their repeated baseless on-air insinuations that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election — a matter at the heart of that company's $1.6 billion defamation suit...

On the anniversary of the Murdoch-owned newspapers final issue, journalists reflect on the Guardian expose that sealed its fate