Former Fox Executive Slams Rupert Murdoch for ‘Bile-Filled’ Fox News: ‘Things Have Gone Badly off the Tracks’
wrote. Padden, who was with Murdoch during the early days of Fox and Fox News, said that “things have gone badly off the tracks” at the cable news network, which he called out for promoting numerous falsehoods, including the severity of COVID-19, the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from Trump, and contributing to vaccine hesitancy (vaccination rates are much lower in Trump-supporting states and counties vs those that voted for Biden).