Decades before Fox News altered the media landscape, Linda Ronstadt, a star known more for her melodies than her media critiques, delivered a powerful warning.
In a 1983 Australian TV interview — 13 years before the launch of Fox News — she spoke out against Rupert Murdoch’s sensationalist newspapers with astoundingly accurate foresight: Decades later, Ronstadt’s words resonate with eerie accuracy.
Her criticism of Murdoch’s approach – sensationalism over substance, fear over fact — seems almost prophetic. It wasn’t just about bad journalism; it was a warning about how Murdoch intended to steer the course of history through lurid, fearmongering disinfotainment.
