A former senior executive for Rupert Murdoch quit his gig over Fox News’ coverage of Muslims, race and immigrants, he told NPR.
“Scaring people. Demonizing immigrants. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country,” former News Corp. Senior Vice President Joseph Azam told NPR. “It fundamentally bothered me on a lot of days and I think I probably wasn’t the only one.”
Azam worked for News Corp. from 2015 until he left in 2017. News Corp. is separate from Fox News, but both are controlled by the Murdoch family. As a Muslim American immigrant who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan as a war refugee when he was a toddler, Azam told NPR his strongest issues were with Tucker Carlson’s show. He was once even reprimanded for responding to one of Carlson’s anti-immigrant tweets during his tenure at the company.
“My issue with this isn’t as an American Muslim. It’s not as a refugee. It’s not as an immigrant. It’s as an American,” he told NPR. “I live here. I have kids here. And it worries me that, you know, what’s being put out into the universe could actually create a lot of risk for them.”
Read NPR’s full report here.
