The 2019 movie Bombshell is a satirical roasting of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News.
There’s a telling moment when an editor explains the Fox ethic to a new recruit. “Basically,” she says, “if it scares your grandparents, it’s a Fox story.”
However, scaring people’s grandparents – with lies about immigrants, welfare scroungers, minorities, “socialism” and all the rest of it – sometimes means scaring (or enraging) other people too.
