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"Tucker on Twitter" began airing on the social media site earlier this month.Tucker Carlson speaks with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.Gage Skidmore via Flickr Fox News has sent a cease and desist letter to former host Tucker Carlson demanding that he stop producing videos for a program he began on Twitter earlier this month after his ouster from the right-wing network in April.

Newsmax, the niche conservative news channel that has long played David to Fox News's Goliath, has seized on Tucker Carlson's shock dismissal from its rival network and declared itself the true TV home for right-wing Americans.So far, the strategy is showing some promise.Viewership of Newsmax remains far below that of Fox News.

WILMINGTON, Del.Fox Corporation executives, including Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, had no direct involvement in what aired on the company's cable news channels, and therefore their company should not be found liable in a $1.6 defamation case, lawyers for Fox argued Wednesday in a Delaware court.The argument was part of Fox's request for a pretrial victory.

As it tries to defend itself against the accusation that it knowingly spread lies about the 2020 presidential election, Fox News has touted some lofty notions about the role of journalism in a democratic society.There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, said a recent company statement, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v Sullivan.

Taking the stand in an extraordinary case against a trio of British tabloids, Prince Harry was grilled during more than seven hours of testimony on Tuesday and Wednesday as lawyers for the Mirror Group Newspapers tried to argue that he had no solid evidence that its journalists had hacked his phone.

Rupert Murdoch, in a sworn deposition as part of Dominion's lawsuit against Fox, confessed that he helped Donald Trump cheat during the 2020 election.He provided Jared Kushner confidential information about Joe Biden's ads, the kind of information that Trump had to rely on Russian spies to obtain from Hillary in 2016.

More than 60 cross-party MPs have written to the Sun's editor, Victoria Newton, to demand an apology and action taken against Jeremy Clarkson for a column where he said the Duchess of Sussex should be paraded through the streets naked.In a letter, they said Meghan had received credible threats to her life and that columns such as Clarkson's contributed to an unacceptable climate of hatred and violence.

Sunny Balwani, seen arriving at federal court in San Jose in March, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 7, on a dozen counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.Sunny Balwani, the one time second-in-command to disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is set to be sentenced Wednesday as the saga of the blood-testing start-up draws to a close.

Did you watch the finale of Succession on HBO this week?If so, did the final shot of Tom and Shiv in their car make you think of Bargaining With Patriarchy, Deniz Kandiyoti's 1988 article that is a classic feminist text?Me too!And not just because Bargaining With Patriarchy would make an extremely literal three-word summary of the entire series.

Mis amigos que nunca han visto Succession, la exitosa serie de HBO que acabara pronto, dicen que no tienen interes en ver a gente rica que se porta mal.Esta serie de humor negro encaja a la perfeccion con eso: sigue las peripecias de la familia Roy, cuyo patriarca, Logan Roy, es una representacion de Rupert Murdoch y cuyos hijos, Shiv, Kendall y Roman, compiten sin cesar, y sin exito, por heredar su trono.

It was interesting, after writing last week's newsletter on the problems of conservative media, to watch Sunday's episode of HBO's Succession, in which the show's lightly fictionalized version of Fox News, run by its somewhat more meaningfully fictionalized version of the Fox-owning Murdoch family, takes center stage for an imagined election night.

Reunions can be awkward.Former President Donald J. Trump finally returned this week to his old stomping ground, Fox News, after several months away.The chilly reception from some of his one-time media allies underscored his uneasy place at the moment in Republican politics.Yes, Sean Hannity, the Fox News anchor who conducted the interview, listened patiently as Mr. Trump reeled off his usual talking points about the fake news media and horrible Democrats.

Fox News's Sunday morning show MediaBuzz which highlights the week's biggest news from the media world chose to ignore the dominant story in the cable news world Hosted by Howard Kurtz, this Sunday's edition of the hour-long program opted not to cover the bombshell revelations involving Fox News and many of its personalities and executives which were made public in a newly-unsealed filing from the Dominion voting systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.

Ron DeSantis has reversed his position on Ukraine, after facing widespread criticism for calling the Russian invasion a territorial dispute.Speaking to Fox Nation in an interview to be broadcast in full on Thursday, the Florida governor and probable contender for the Republican presidential nomination said his territorial dispute remark had been mischaracterised.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.According to a recent deposition, the chairman of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, tried to make sure former President Donald Trump was given less coverage on the conservative news channel after the 2020 election.

The Duchess of Sussex was quizzed by the Queen about her opinion of Donald Trump the first time the two women met, her husband has revealed in his controversial memoir.Meghan and Harry's momentous encounter with the late monarch was staged at Royal Lodge, the Duke of York's Berkshire home, but the duchess did not recognise Andrew when he joined them and thought the Queen's son was her assistant.

Republicans have intensified their public criticism of former president Donald Trump following an unexpectedly poor showing in the midterm elections, even as he plans to announce a third White House bid next week.irginia's Republican lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, once a vocal supporter of Mr Trump, said voters had sent "a very clear message" on Tuesday that "enough is enough".

News Corp said Thursday that it would cut 5% of its workforce, or 1,250 jobs, after the media conglomerate fell short of quarterly Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue, hurt by declines across its businesses, including news.The company also said it incurred $6 million in one-time costs associated with its plans to merge with Fox Corp, which Rupert Murdoch, News Corp executive chairman and Fox co-chairman, scrapped in January.

Fox News has been exposed like never before.A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election.The correspondence reveals that the network's senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News' audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a sulfurous critic of the news media, has all but shunned one-on-one interviews with mainstream political reporters, speaking almost exclusively in recent months with friendly conservative pundits.But he has finally granted an interview to a major establishment newspaper just not one in the United States.

At precisely this point in the electoral cycle that led to Tony Blair's first term as prime minister, the leader of the Labour party flew halfway around the world to meet Rupert Murdoch on Hayman Island, off Australia's Queensland coast.Then, as now, Britain was two years away from an election the Labour party seemed destined to win.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security as she arrives at federal court in San Jose on Sept. 1, 2022.(Jeff Chiu/AP)Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO, booked a one-way plane ticket to Mexico that was scheduled to depart just weeks after she was convicted of fraud in January 2022, a recent court filing says.

Rupert Murdoch paid Boris Johnson 11,559 to fly to a business meeting in the western US.Mr Johnson's register of interests does not reveal who the former prime minister met with, but the media mogul is reported to have bought a large ranch in Montana in December 2021.Another entry in Mr Johnson's register of interests show he was also paid 276,000 for a speech to American insurers barely a month after leaving Downing Street.

Boris Johnson was paid 276,000 for a speech to American insurers barely a month after leaving Downing Street.The former prime minister addressed a conference held by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB) in October, giving a 30-minute speech and a 45-minute fireside chat at the event in Colorado Springs.

Former President Donald Trump hailed a "Big Victory" on Friday and prepared to go ahead with plans to launch his 2024 White House campaign even as Republicans licked their wounds from a historic flop in the midterm elections."WE WON!" Trump claimed on his social media platform."Big

For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans' unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch's media properties.And the consensus wasn't kind to former President Donald J. Trump.Trump is the Republican Party's biggest loser, declared the headline on a Wall Street Journal editorial on Thursday, which accused Mr. Trump of having flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Shares of News Corp have fallen about 33 percent over the last year.Shares of News Corp fell about 2 percent in aftermarket trading on Friday.News Corp would still be a media colossus without its real estate business.News Corp's real estate listings business includes a 61.4 percent stake in REA Group worth roughly $5.7 billion.

John Witherow has stepped down as editor of The Times after nine years and been appointed chairman of Times Newspapers, News UK has said.Mr Witherow has stepped down with immediate effect, and the new editor of The Times will be announced on Wednesday.Thanks to him, the future for The Times is bright.He joined News UK in 1980, and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1994 and The Times in 2013.Rupert Murdoch said John Witherow had broken stories that had resonance around the world (John Stillwell/PA Wire) His leadership of both The Sunday Times and latterly of The Times has taken each paper from strength to strength, breaking stories that have resonance around the world.