Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (13749574p) A person holds a sign with images of Tucker Carlson & George Santos that reads ''Fox Made Lying Normal'' outside of Fox News Network. "Stop Killing Black People" Protest At Fox News, New York, USA - 31 Jan 2023" width="1000" height="600" class="gu-image" /> If you’ve paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates, the recent revelations from a legal filing come as no huge surprise.
From the moment it was founded in the mid-1990s, Fox has been a partisan outlet – very much by the design of its founder, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and its founding chief executive, Roger Ailes. It never was the “fair and balanced” news source that its motto claimed. Calling it “conservative” has always been putting things far too mildly; but for a time, it observed a modicum of journalistic standards.
