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In recent days, liberal New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has targeted Fox News and its parent company News Corp with accusations of damaging the country. In an appearance during Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, he defended his claims and fantasized about how well off the country would be if News Corp-owned news outlets didn’t exist.
“If you ask New York City’s mayor what lies behind a lot of the negativity and the divisiveness gripping this nation, he’s got a simple answer for you: He says it's the media empire of Rupert Murdoch that’s at fault,” CNN media reporter and host Brian Stelter prefaced before their interview. Even though Stelter is obsessed with bashing Fox news, he worried that De Blasio was wondering into “Trumpian” territory.
After being asked what his “critique” was of the conservative New Corp, the far-left Mayor unleashed his hatred. “We would be a more unified country,” he declared. “There would be less overt hate. There would be less appeal to racial division, I guarantee it. Because what Murdoch did through Fox News and the New York Post, among others, is to create a dynamic where that stuff could come out in the open.” The smears of racism aside, what he’s really talking about is allowing only liberal outlets to exist.
De Blasio decried News Corp for having a “political agenda” with their reporting and asserted that all they did was sew divisions in the country. Stelter pushed back and argued he was sounding like Trump:
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