EXCLUSIVE: VICE News obtained hundreds of pages of documents showing the climate strategy of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch: prepare for the emergency internally while publicly denying it exists. bit.ly/2XJxytX
Murdoch’s News Corp is privately seeking to “take a leadership role on the issue of climate change,” documents obtained by VICE News show, even as it gives massive air time to climate deniers. bit.ly/3zATxAj
While anchors on Fox News trash the science linking extreme weather to climate change, Murdoch’s News Corp is carefully tracking the damage it faces due to wildfires, hurricanes, and other climate dangers. bit.ly/3zATxAj
Murdoch’s company in 2020 made the link between climate change, extreme drought, and wildfires on the U.S. West Coast. But on Fox News, Tucker Carlson attacked Democrats for “insisting without evidence that climate change is causing California wildfires. bit.ly/3zATxAj
Murdoch seemed to abruptly decide in 2006 that the climate emergency is real. “Until recently, I was somewhat wary of the warming debate,” he said that year during a speech in Tokyo. bit.ly/3zATxAj
The documents show Murdoch’s News Corp privately acknowledged that climate change is making hurricanes worse, even as a Wall Street Journal Europe editorial writer claimed in 2012 "'climate change' shouldn’t be blamed for Hurricane Sandy." bit.ly/3zATxAj
Murdoch is saving tens of millions of dollars due to corporate green initiatives, and at the same time earning record profits by feeding his global audience rage-inducing content attacking out-of-control liberals and downplaying the crisis. bit.ly/3zATxAj
“If there’s a buck to be made,” said former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Murdoch, "he’ll make a buck." bit.ly/3zATxAj
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