The Good Son: James Murdoch Fights Father’s Misinformation Machine

The name Murdoch is synonymous with money, influence and radical conservatism.

The Global media Empire, News Corp, is led by Rupert Murdoch, who at 86 years old is one of the world’s wealthiest men. Worth an estimated 20 Billion Dollars (US) as of 2019, Murdoch controls the majority of media news outlets both domestically and internationally with sales of News Corp publications accounting for more than 65% of total information sources in Australia with the second largest news media influence, Fairfax controlling another 25% of total information circulated to the public. With a single entity holding so much influence over news the public consumes, Ex Prime Minister of Labor, Kevin Rudd, led the charge for the Australian Parliament to open an investigation into Murdoch’s dominance of the news industry calling it a “Cancer to Democracy.”

In America, Murdoch owns Fox News along with, literally, hundreds of other media outlets ranging from international media enterprises to smaller, more localized television news broadcasting agencies, to magazine…