Peter Bart: CNN+ Failure Is Bridging the Gap Between Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Everyone Else

The timing seemed right: To attract new subscribers, CNN+ recently aired a multi-part statement from Fox News and its 91-year-old patriarch, Rupert Murdoch. It will be tempting material for a new streaming platform where media outlets are shifting their rivals to the right. How can it fail?

Made. Their new corporate parent, Warner Bros., abruptly shut down after CNN+’s announcement last week. On Discovery, which recently revised its business plans. Meanwhile, Dr. Murdoch is gone, at least for now.

“Events show once again that Murdoch’s followers are able to pursue a certain strategy while their rivals seem to have disappeared into the fog,” said the CEO of a rival media company.

This vision seems to support a documentary based on a multi-part ‘investigation’. New York Times (She is not friends with Murdoch.) Theme: Murdoch was motivated from the start to create not just a simple news channel, but a tribal culture, a culture that would lead to profit as well as political power.

That goal was given further impetus by Murdoch’s successful broadcasting platform, Fox Nation, which has over 1 million subscribers and is a mix of pop culture and ideological messages. CNN+ would be its competitor, but still at a young age, the CNN platform was more like a news provider than Ted Turner originally envisioned in the late 1970s.

Trusted to Fox News by Roger Ailes in 1996, Murdoch ensured that his leanness would pass on to solid right, and ultimately to Donald Trump. Beginning with the production of entertainment programs, Ayles envisioned creating a tribal follower that could be mobilized as a publicity and political force.

Yet even during his first relationship with Yale, Murdoch remained in the background, worried that his Fox News volume could become increasingly isolated, a concern that some Fox advertisers now believe is materializing. Mike Lindell may sell his political pillows, but most other ad buyers want to fend off the culture wars.

This is especially true as the gap between the Fox News world on the right and MSNBC and CNN on the left continues to widen. While their opponents focus on the January 6 uprising and a cloud of Trumpism, the Fox prophets are obsessed with immigration and crime while fighting in Ukraine. Some commentators compare Tucker Carlson’s propaganda for Putin with Hitler’s sentiments. Chicago TribuneRobert McCormick and other American publishers on the eve of WWII.

CNN’s new corporate parents may potentially redefine its mission, but Murdoch seems inclined to deliver on his original script. Nearly four years after selling its Sky stake to Comcast, it is reviving its UK presence with a new think tank, TalkTV. Talk TV comes to life as Fox Nation gives American viewers a taste of Sean Hannit and Carlson. morgan piers uncensoredTrump was Morgan’s first guest.

This agenda seems consistent with the book outlined Murdochs: An Empire of InfluenceCNN+ document. describing the show New York Times It is reported to represent the Murdoch dynasty in style. HeritageAn influential drama on HBO. The Murdoch saga is a tale of “greed, betrayal and stepping back.” TimesWho provided the source material.

Rupert, 91, is still a responsible person and his son Lachlan is officially his media manager. There are periodic reports of the survival of other Murdoch descendants, such as James and Elizabeth, but their specificity is uncertain. By opportunistically shifting his movie assets from Fox to Disney, Rupert is able to refocus on the one commodity that matters most to him: power.