the point of most of murdochs "news" organizations isnt to make money but to exert political power so the rest of his empire can make money. he does it in the us w fox/ny post, in uk w the sun and times etc.
this is a famous front page from the uk sun after they switched from conservative to labour to support tony blair and then he won the election in 92 
in a way, to me, murdoch is kind of like limbaugh in that if he saw a path to power in left-leaning politics, his media empire would reflect that. its just that right-wing politics is more amenable to deregulation and mergers which benefit the murdoch pocket.
at his core murdoch's *probably* a right-winger but i dont think he has a super strong ideological commitment. its just he makes a lot more money in america when republicans are in charge of things.
roger ailes was def an ideological, right-wing conservative and he wanted to create a network so something like nixon's impeachment would never happen again. murdoch wanted deregulation and mergers and ailes went to him for money and backing. voila, fox news.
i am personally convinced murdoch hardly has any idea what is actually on fox news. he doesnt seem to care, although when people bring up the openly racist content of programs like tucker carlson its prob a little embarrassing. but he gets over it when he checks his accounts.
when i was at mmfa i covered the hearings about the phone hacking in the uk when they brought in murdoch to testify and the policy over there just seemed to me to be "do splashy stuff, get eyeballs you can push right-wing politics to, repeat."
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