You’d think Lachlan Murdoch has bigger things to worry about. The chief executive of Fox Corp. is reportedly threatening legal action against Crikey, an independent Australian news website, over a June 29 article suggesting that he and his father, Rupert Murdoch, share blame in the U.S. Capitol attack. The younger Murdoch “has issued a concerns notice and fired off multiple legal letters to Crikey since June,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported over the weekend, adding that “Murdoch is demanding an apology for the claims, which he says are defamatory.” The Herald also noted that this is not the first time the younger Murdoch has demanded an apology from Crikey, which has capitulated in past claims. But this time may be different, with Crikey editor-in-chief Peter Fray saying in a statement to the Herald, “Crikey and its publisher Private Media are sick of being intimidated by Lachlan Murdoch.”
The Crikey article—which was apparently taken down a day after publication (due to Murdoch’s legal threat) but was later republished “to clarify” the Herald’s recent reporting—alleges that “the Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators” are the “unindicted co-conspirators” in the January 6 attack, much like Richard Nixon in Watergate. The article was published a day after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, which has been working to untangle the relationship between Donald Trump and his favorite TV network,...
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