WaPo’s Sommer on Murdoch Stepping Down as Fox and News Corp Chairman: He Received a Lot of Backlash After Firing Tucker Carlson

RUSH EXCERPT:

SOMMER: "You know it is interesting on one hand, as you said, it’s not that surprising because he’s ninety two on the other. It is a bit of a surprise me. This is a guy who end up until recently, really presented himself as planning to home news. Corp the foreseeable future, so it is a surprise, and so why is stepping down honestly? It seems like he’s taken a couple hits lately. I mean certainly fox that this mammoth nearly billion dollar settlement was dominion voting systems over election fraud allegations. There are more losses coming down the pike he fired, Tucker Carlson, which just gotten animals a backlash from his traditional supporters. So there’s a lot of reasons along with his age for Rupert Murdoch, just step down now."