Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, didn’t hold back his criticism of media mogul Rupert Murdoch in his new memoir. Harry wrote that the owner of media outlets such as Fox News and the New York Post is “evil.”
Murdoch owns media companies in Australia and England, so there’s influence outside the U.S. While Harry writes he didn’t care for the political beliefs of the mogul, he did note in his memoir the issues over Murdoch’s outlets stretching the truth.
“Of course, I didn’t care for Murdoch’s politics, which were just to the right of the Taliban’s,” Harry writes in “Spare” (h/t The Hill). “And I didn’t like the harm he did each and every day to the truth, his wanton desecration of objective facts.”
Harry is also critical of paparazzi and top editors at tabloids owned by Murdoch for what he said was profiting from photos and salacious stories about the royal family.
“Once you’ve been chased by someone’s henchmen through the streets of a busy modern city you lose all doubt about where they stand on the Great Moral Continuum,” Harry writes.
“All my life I’d heard jokes about the links between royal misbehavior and centuries of inbreeding, but it was then that I realized: Lack of genetic diversity was nothing compared to press gaslighting. Marrying your cousin is far less dicey than becoming a profit center for Murdoch Inc.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
