“If you were watching some of the commentators on Fox News and Fox Business in the first 10 days of March, you wouldn’t have been too worried about the coronavirus — it would be no worse than the flu, and the real story was the ‘coronavirus impeachment scam,'” the New York Times reports.
“But one elderly Fox News viewer, a crucial supporter of President Trump, took the threat seriously: The channel’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, who was to celebrate his 89th birthday on March 11.”
“On March 8, as the virus was spreading, the Murdoch family called off a planned party out of concern for the patriarch’s health… There were about 20 people on the guest list.”
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