April 10, 2014

Fortune

In a rollicking interview with Fortune’s Patricia Sellers, Rupert Murdoch says an all-digital New York Post “might be quite likely in 10 years,” claims Mike Bloomberg told him “nobody reads” Bloomberg View and says of Twitter: “My family are horrified that I’m on it.”

There’s also this exchange with Sellers:

Does it bother you at all, Rupert, that there is a view that Fox News has contributed in a big way to the political discontent in the U.S., degraded the political process, and maybe, in spotlighting the Tea Party, even hurt the Republican Party? I think it has absolutely saved it. It has certainly given voice and hope to people who didn’t like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN. By the way, we don’t promote the Tea Party. That’s bullshit. We recognize their existence.

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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