The News Corp CEO, a vigorous supporter of the GOP presidential candidate, seems resigned to the prospect that his guy will lose. “Everybody searching for any scrap of news about election tomorrow,” he just tweeted. While there are “plenty of straws to grasp for Romney, probably not enough.” That’s a shift from yesterday when he tweeted: “Seems slight edge to [President] Obama, but Romney seeing small late surge. Many state polls look unreliable.” He also wrote that there’s “Contradictory evidence from all over. Impossible for any sensible person to make confident prediction.” On Saturday the exec whose company includes the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News lamented that “Monolithic media will spend next three days pushing Obama, but final outcome far from certain. Early voting patterns look very different.” He also observed: “Just look at European welfare state and broken countries. Some want US to follow, others not. Why can’t we debate civilly?”


Seriously? Great!
Screw Rupert Murdock and the sham that is his extremely Unfair & Unbalanced Faux News.
It’s astounding that he has the gall to tweet “Why can’t we debate civilly?” — as if it wasn’t for the fact that his personal right-wing hate propaganda network wasn’t THE reason that the Republican Party feels empowered to not debate any issue at all.
+1
Hear, hear, Aggregator…well said!
Romney will win in a landslide….then Hollywood will cry.
Romney is set to lose. Landslide? You silly rabbit.
You are adorable.
funniest thing I’ve heard today
Anne, now just stop it !
You wish.
good one alex
i fell off my seat laughing
You can’t vote here Rupert, so stay out of our democracy.
Wait… the guy behind Fox News is asking why we can’t debate our differences civilly? Seriously?!
You know things are bad when your unofficial Vice President running mate is out there tweeting things like this…
remind me why his opinion matters to us anymore?
So remind me why Fox is number 1 in ratings?
McDonalds is the #1 fast food chain in the world. Doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Ever heard of Lowest Common Denominator?
There’s a lot of that in this country. And they watch a lot of shit.
So the purveyor of monolithic right-wing media haz a sad that other outlets refuse to fall in line behind his fascist pronouncements? Oh noes, get me my fainting couch. But congrats to Murdick for coming up with a worthy successor to Larry King’s vapid, inane USA Today column with his equally banal tweets
Why republish Murdochs tweets as if they were news? I mean, it’s interesting to see some insight into why Fox News is so systemically messed up, but that doesn’t seem to be the purpose of this article.
It’s hilarious to see majority owner of the biggest news company in the world complain about the “monolithic media”.
That said, I agree with him: the oligopolistic media giants need to be broken up, starting with News Corp.
I think these are crocodile tears.
Rupert knows that Obama in the WH is good for Fox’ ratings. Imagine 4 years of apologizing for Mitt the twit’s flip-flopping?
“Why cant we debate civilly?”
Doesn’t Murdoch watch his own Hannity and ORielly?
Seems like guys named Murdock just can’t say the right thing these days.
Agree with Murdoch on this one. I’ve been looking for any SHRED of REAL NEWS on the election the last THREE days – hard to find. I literally am watching 60 Minutes via DVR here Monday evening. Did they do a story on the Presidential election? Nope. The Senate and how they both can’t get along. Disappointed with a number of my “go to” programs for election coverages. A moderate, mostly liberal here I pride myself from not watching either parties cable station including Mr. Murdoch’s. The news media has SUCKED the past 5 days on the election. Glad I already voted, but feel bad for those who haven’t. I would be confused if I hadn’t been paying attention. Agree with Murdoch.
All those news channels have been busy covering the crippling damage left by a major hurricane. It’s not like they were reporting on Snooki the past 5 days.
Yep, you mean like the important election news on FOX? With all their “experts” predicting a Romney Landslide? Voter fraud that doesn’t exist? And, don’t forget dawn to dusk coverage of ‘breaking news’ on the Benghazi Libya “scandal”!
I predicted a Obama land slide months ago right after Ryan was chosen…
If Fox can hack into electronic voting machines as well as they can hack into celebrities’ and dead childrens’ cell phones, then Mitt will win.
All this churn over an election that will result in 0 change. Boehner won’t work with Obama, and Reid won’t work with Romney. Two more years of nothing. Ain’t democracy grand?!