After American media have been speculating for days which heads are rolling at "Fox News", Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan, head of Fox Corp., has demonstratively backed the head of Fox News: "Suzanne Scott has done a great job," he said at an investor conference in San Francisco. "Our brand is tremendously strong," said Lachlan Murdoch. This is thanks to Suzanne Scott and her team. Lachlan Murdoch commented for the first time on the scandal surrounding the station. Those responsible are accused of hypocrisy and fraternization with the camp of Donald Trump.

Actually, Murdoch should have commented on the defamation lawsuit that the voting machine manufacturer Dominion is leading against the broadcaster. Instead, he adhered to the propaganda with which Fox News apparently spreads Trump's fairy tale of election fraud against better knowledge. The "noise" surrounding the trial was nothing but a political attack, said Lachlan Murdoch; Fox News reports "without fear or favoritism."

The lies of the moderators

That this is not the case is on record: According to the documents disclosed in court, it was clear to the Fox News talkers that the election manipulation thesis was "absurd" (Tucker Carlson), "insane" (Sean Hannity), "crazy" (Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham), "shockingly reckless" and "offensive" to viewers (Carlson).

Meanwhile, executives noted that viewers were going to channels like Newsmax and OANN. Their "conspiratorial reporting may be exactly what the disappointed Fox News viewer is looking for," speculated Fox News executive Ron Mitchell. The station had proclaimed the US state of Arizona as the first and correctly on election night for Joe Biden. Then the moderators began to lie: there had been "irregularities" in the voting machines (Bartiromo); Concerns about the integrity of the election are "legitimate" (Carlson) and the election is "full of problems and potential fraud" (Ingraham).

Suzanne Scott was responsible for this, apparently following Lachlan Murdoch's instructions. She issued the motto "not to alienate the audience". In the face of critical reports by her own journalists about Trump, she said she could not "defend reporters who our viewers don't understand." Lachlan Murdoch, she said that viewers must be "let know that we hear and respect them"; Murdoch Junior had urged her to stop critical statements about Trump.

Lachlan's father, Rupert Murdoch, was involved in the conversations between Scott and Lachlan, according to Dominion documents. In a hearing on the Dominion trial, Murdoch senior had confessed that he had doubted the thesis of electoral fraud. Executives who endorsed these lies should be "reprimanded, possibly fired." It was then speculated that Suzanne Scott had to go, but this is apparently not the case and easy to explain – she acted in collusion with Lachlan Murdoch. Meanwhile, Fox News continues to blithely broadcast fake news. Tucker Carlson said the 2020 election was "a serious fraud on American democracy." "No honest person can deny that."