‘Rupert Murdoch-Owned US Outlets Turn on Trump, Urging Him to Act With “Grace”’

Tom McCarthy, writing for The Guardian:

Multiple Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative media outlets in the United States have shifted their messaging in a seeming effort to warn readers and viewers that Donald Trump may well have lost the presidential election.

The new messaging appears to be closely coordinated, and it includes an appeal to Trump to preserve his “legacy” by showing grace in defeat. The message is being carried on Fox News and in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post – all outlets avidly consumed by Trump himself, especially Fox.

George Washington, father of the nation. Abraham Lincoln, freed the slaves. Donald Trump, grace in defeat. Sure, sounds right.

★ Saturday, 7 November 2020