Peter Bart: CNN+ Fail Widens Chasm Between Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News And Everyone Else

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The timing seemed propitious: Eager to entice new subscribers, CNN+ was about to unfurl a multi-part exposé of Fox News and its 91-year-old patriarch, Rupert Murdoch.

It would be juicy material for the new streaming platform, with newsies on the left hammering their rivals on the right. How could it fail?It did.

Upon making its heralded bow, CNN+ last week was abruptly shut down by its new corporate parents at Warner Bros. Discovery, who had just glimpsed its business plan.

The doc on Murdoch, meanwhile, still awaits its moment with his allies savoring the delay.“The events again demonstrate that Murdoch’s minions are able to pursue a defined strategy while their rivals seem lost in the fog,” observes the CEO of a rival media company.This view seems reinforced by the documentary — the one that didn’t run — which is based on a multi-part “investigation” in the New York Times (not a friend of Murdoch).