Between the dozens of sexual harassment settlements, hundreds of billions of $$$ in defamation payouts, criminal activity in the UK, globe-spanning campaigns of hate, conspiracy-mongering, misogyny and outright racism, I’m starting to think Rupert Murdoch is a bad guy
![reporting from the guardian quoting court documents from the smartmatic defamation suit quoting fox employees trashing their own network which reads ,
The comments come from an anonymous internal survey – the “Fox News 2020 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey” – of 1,040 employees conducted between 24 August 2020 and 8 September 2020. Several employees expressed concerns that the network was intentionally aiding Donald Trump and the Republican party.
One anonymous employee said that Fox should “change the misogynist, racist, rightwing content,” adding, “Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican party NOT a news organization and should be acknowledged as such. It is embarrassing to tell people that I work here as even conservatives know [Fox News Channel] and [Fox Business Network] are biased information sources – not news.” While the employee called the work environment “great,” they said “the content is hateful and has made the world a more divided and angry place”.
“I sometimes go home fighting back tears,” an employee said. “This network made me question my morals. Have I sold my soul to the devil?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3tsq52ldfx4t5vqozq5jss2j/bafkreievecdg7vwl46krse3j6motxpyza6zdgxen5kiwdowtsfzqp2bzka)
![an excerpt from a letter written by R. Crumb to Harper’s Magazine responding to a book review of a biography about Crumb. The reviewer had casually referred to one of Crumb’s partners as one of his “victims.”
the excerpt reads,
“I have read Dan Piepenbring’s review of Dan Nadel’s biography of me [“New Books,” April], and just to set the record straight, the “victim” who said, “You don’t cop a feel. You cop a ride,” was a big strong woman who INVITED me to hop on her back and then danced around humming a tune just to show how easy it was for her. I was thrilled, of course, “pervert” that I am. She worked for the parks department in San Francisco and boasted of how part of her job involved carrying ninety-pound sacks of manure, which she said was no big deal for her! Wow! Oh, I love big strong ladies.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3tsq52ldfx4t5vqozq5jss2j/bafkreihibaug7sdnhpqmy4uubfx4qhhh4rb3hmnr6mzkv3remfz3xmq6ru)
![Excerpt from the Washington post article titled “In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power”, which reads:
“We’ve been without [power] for quite a long time,” said Nez, who lives separately from her teenage children so they have electricity to complete their schoolwork. Tech companies “already have it,” she said, “and for them to get more power, it’s kind of not right.”
Nicole Garcia, a spokeswoman for Arizona’s utility board the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), said it did not approve the Navajo aid provision because of “concerns about how the funds would be used,” adding that customers are not “responsible for extending electricity to all tribal areas of the state.”
Ann Porter, a spokesperson for the power company Arizona Public Service (APS), said that its process for raising rates is “backward-looking.” The organization aims to “recover money we’ve already spent and better align with the cost to maintain a reliable energy grid for Arizona.”
After a years-long courtship of Big Tech by local politicians, power companies and utility regulators eager for the promise of tax revenue and jobs, the strain on Arizona’s power grid is already apparent. Often, vulnerable communities are paying the price. While Nez and her neighbors lost a shot at getting power, the historically Black town of Randolph, almost 60 miles south of Phoenix, faces the expansion of a massive natural gas plant that emits particulate matter linked to asthma and lung cancer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3tsq52ldfx4t5vqozq5jss2j/bafkreidefhulyrx7pzu3hujt3xpwiruxvm2htekg5etkgaggcs2dq3thca)
