James Murdoch, the son of conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, proclaimed that there are viewpoints he “really” disagrees with on Fox News.
Murdoch, 46, explained how he’s moved on after leaving the Murdochs’ media company in an interview with the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer, which was published Tuesday morning. He was given a $2 billion severance package when he decided to move on from his roll as the CEO of 21st Century Fox and Sky, P.L.C., and the deputy COO of News Corp. after their merger with Disney.
In the interview, he expressed concern over increasing threats to democracy throughout the world.
“There’d been a bet for a long time that economic liberalization would inevitably lead to political liberalization,” Murdoch said, “but it didn’t work out that way.”
“The connective tissue of our society is being manipulated to make us fight with each other, making us the worst versions of ourselves,” he added, and then didn’t back down when Mayer asked if this was directed at Fox News.
“There are views I really disagree with on Fox,” Murdoch said. “But I wouldn’t cast it as some reaction to that.”
“But this is not just a Trumpian problem,” he added. “Generally, Western liberalism is up against an enormous amount of opposition everywhere.”
