Cenk Uygur
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Fox President “Trumps" Fox Owner
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July 23, 2015
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7:55Now PlayingDonald Trump has to keep the most prominent conservative media outlets on his side. The owner of Fox parent company News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, isn’t a fan of Trump, but Fox President Roger Ailes is. Is there a power struggle brewing at Fox? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“...Australian media titan Rupert Murdoch is trying as hard as he can to blunt Trump’s meteoric rise to the top of the GOP field. However, the man at the top of Murdoch’s most powerful news organ, Fox News’ Roger Ailes, isn’t interested in blocking Trump’s ascent.
Murdoch has called Trump and his controversial remarks about illegal immigrants an embarrassment to the Republican Party.
However, Gabriel Sherman — author of the Fox News exposéThe Loudest Voice in the Room — wrote at New York magazine that at the conservative news channel, chairman and chief executive Roger Ailes is “pushing Fox to defend Trump’s most outlandish comments...”
Ailes — a former Nixon aide de camp — has reportedly charged certain Fox personalities, like The Five‘s co-host Eric Bolling, with continually backing Trump in on-air discussions.”*
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