Former Fox News host Glenn Beck recently claimed during a broadcast on BlazeTV that he was asked by Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch not to talk about God on air.
Beck’s statement came after Tucker Carlson, another former Fox News opinion host, parted ways with the network.
According to Vanity Fair, Murdoch was unhappy with Carlson’s speech at the Heritage Foundation, in which Carlson spoke about the moral state of America and an ongoing battle between “good” and “evil.”
However, it was a dinner Murdoch had with his ex-fiancée and Carlson that some believe might have been the final straw. Murdoch was reportedly put off by “Carlson’s messianism because it echoed the end-times worldview of Murdoch’s ex-fiancée Ann Lesley Smith,” who reportedly called Carlson “a messenger from God.”Beck, who left Fox News in 2015, made a similar claim about censorship during his time at the network in 2016 while campaigning for Sen. Ted Cruz.
At the time, Beck did not identify Murdoch as the person involved in the conversation. While Fox News did not comment directly on Beck’s recent allegation, a spokesperson pointed to a number of articles published by The Christian Post pertaining to Fox News personalities talking about their faith in response to Beck’s claims.
Fox News announced on April 24 that it had “agreed to part ways” with Carlson, its highest-rated primetime opinion host. The network did not offer any reason for his departure.
Carlson has since hinted at his future plans, expressing concern about the lack of discussions taking place about the “undeniably big topics” that “will define our future.”
He also signed off his recent public remarks by saying “see you soon,” a message many interpreted as pointing to a return to some sort of media platform in the near future.
The allegations surrounding Murdoch’s discomfort with references to God on air, as well as Carlson’s departure, have raised questions about the role of religion in the media landscape.
While it is not uncommon for media personalities to express their religious views, it remains to be seen whether these recent events will have a wider impact on the media industry as a whole.
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If I was with Fox News, guilty of the lying, misleading and strife they have caused in the English speaking world (they have similar propaganda outlets guilty of lying and breaking the law in the UK and Australia)
I would be very concern of the possibility of a God and be very afraid of ending in HELL.
Rupert is probably betting there is no God so he would escape the justice and retribution for the harm he has caused the world
All those evil religions should have been left in the old countries! No religion addiction mental illness should have ever been brought into our wonderful USA! Religions ruined the old countries and were the real evil that our ancestors were really fleeing when they came here!
All the money in the world cannot buy your
way into heaven. You leave this world
just as you came into it. So, Murdoch had better
change his opinion about his employees
speaking about God. I could name quite a few
on Fox who often refer to God and their
belief in Him. I feel sorry for anyone who
refuses to acknowledge God.
Stop lying! No gods ever existed!
Murdoch better watch out. If he thinks he can disparage GOD and get away with it, he has a lot coming to him that he doesn’t expect or want. What a foolish man.
C’mon! Stop evilly lying! No gods ever existed!
Wrong Fool, but , you’ll soon find out !
The WRATH of GOD will be Spectacular against the Non-believers and Blasphemers ! Then we’ll seethem wailing n crying begging GOD to save their Stinking Souls !