Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Blasts "Awful Woke Orthodoxy," Big Tech Censorship

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The Australian-born mogul made the comment in a pre-recorded address broadcast on Saturday while receiving a lifetime achievement award in London from The Australia Day Foundation, a British non-profit.

"For those of us in media there's a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential," he said. "This rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media, is a straitjacket on sensibility. Too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful 'woke' orthodoxy."

Murdoch's comments come at a time when leftwing groups and organizations in the west are on a crusade against free expression and association.

The unrelenting campaign to 'cancel,' deplatform and ruin conservatives and Trump supporters who oppose the left's degenerate social and racist agenda, has only exacerbated the divisiveness and chaos caused by months of Black Lives Matter and antifa riots in major western cities.

Media outlets like CNN actively support the cancel culture movement. This naturally sets the leftwing outlets against some of Murdoch-owned outlets like Fox News which advocate for free speech and against the 'woke' movement.

The 89 year-old mogul has been weathering the pandemic at home in the United Kingdom with his Texan wife, Jerry Hall. He said his career, which "began in a smoke-filled Adelaide newsroom, is still in motion."

"I can assure you that there are many goals still to come, and challenges to overcome. I'm far from done," the billionaire said, a bottle of Australian wine by his side and a medal around his neck.

Murdoch a United States citizen has been notably quiet since the presidential election in November, even as President Trump who he previously backed faces a wave of censorship and unrelenting attacks by Democrats and their media allies.

Trump was furious at Fox News for calling Arizona, on the night of the election, before any other network, and even demanded his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, call Murdoch to demand a retraction. Murdoch refused.

In response Trump urged his supporters to boycott Fox and watch rivals Newsmax and OAN instead.

Attempting to regain Fox News' dominance in the news media landscape, a series of the outlet's digital journalists were fired, including Chris Stirewalt, a political editor who defended the Arizona call. The "restructuring," as Fox News spokesperson described the redundancies, is reportedly led by Murdoch himself.

Popular Fox News prime time conservative hosts like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, are staunch advocates of free speech and against leftwing 'woke' degeneracy.