Rupert Murdoch rarely has to answer for the alternative realities presented by his hugely profitable US cable network, Fox News.
Its conspiratorial claims of a parade of cover ups from the 2012 Benghazi attack to the climate crisis and Covid have been lapped up by Fox viewers and scorned by much of the rest of America, and then the world moved on. But this week, the 91-year-old billionaire media mogul was due to answer difficult questions under oath about the inner workings of