Fox, WSJ, and NYP — Get out of the NYC sewer!
By Mark Alexander
web posted March
23, 2026
You may be aware that the MSM conglomerate News Corp, which is controlled by Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his family, includes Fox News and all its affiliates; Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal and other leading business publications; and the New York Post, a high-profile tabloid that is actually a reliable resource for breaking political news.
What you may not know is that all of these companies are housed in one location in Midtown Manhattan — that leftist urban center now under the thumb of socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Of course, Manhattan is better known for its Leftmedia platforms, including The New York Times, the nation's most influential purveyor of leftist propaganda screeds.
There are two reasons why the Murdochs, whose patriarch celebrated his 95th birthday earlier this month, should decentralize News Corp's various companies to new locations outside of New York.
First, security. These are the most influential conservative media outlets in the nation, and it's asinine to have them under one roof in enemy territory. No need to elaborate here.
Second, locating all these assets in the New York City sewer means that almost all their employees are living in and around that cesspool ... and it shows in their editorial content. That effluent is seeping into News Corp's companies.
At Fox News, Bret Baier's "Special Report," which I record daily to get a sense of what the MSM cable outlets are covering, has devolved into a news-churn machine and, if unchecked, it will end up on the trash heap of tabloid TV. Most nights now, I fast-forward through 85% of Bret's once-great programming because it has progressively become an endless loop of infotainment pretending to be news in order to sell advertising.
That means the advertisers for Fox News and all of News Corp's media outlets are ever-present in their editorial rooms, both limiting coverage of some news because it might offend advertisers and, at the same time, prompting other coverage as bait to sell advertising.
Open any page at Fox News and it will quickly become apparent how trashed the Fox pages are with advertising. Those pages will not display if they detect ad-blocker apps.
I will still record Baier because of his right-left panel discussions and, of course, because the most astute political commentator on any platform, Brit Hume, is still in the Fox stable. But if any Fox News segment begins with a prepackaged intro with dramatic music, that screams "CHURN," and I immediately move on.
Elsewhere within News Corp, the tabloid content of the New York Post is seeping into The Wall Street Journal. One recent WSJ article exemplified that seepage: "One Throuple Had Three Separate Design Tastes. How Did They Manage a Renovation?" If you don't know what a "throuple" is, congratulations! It is a romantic relationship between three people, in this case, three gender confused dudes who were having trouble getting their living space to reflect three different decorative ideas.
Seriously, that was in The Wall Street Journal.
Surely old Rupert is aware that now-countless other companies and individuals have fled blue states in recent years for lower taxes, fewer regulations, and business-friendly receptions in conservative GOP-led red states. And that exodus has accelerated recently.
Those companies voting with their collective feet include the social media platform X, SpaceX, and Tesla, Palantir Technologies, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Oracle, and Public Storage, among many others.
Corporate giants moving to Texas from California include AECOM, McKesson, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The world's wealthiest person, entrepreneur Elon Musk, relocated with his companies to Texas. And this week's latest exodus list entry bound for Texas is Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick.
The California exodus also included the major news platform Daily Wire, which led the blue-state departures when moving its publishing headquarters from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2021. Founded in 2015 by Ben Shapiro (now its editor emeritus), current CEO Caleb Robinson, and contributor Jeremy Boreing, the site has seen its content and influence grow massively since then. Boreing said of the move: "The dream of California and the weather were enough to draw us all here and keep us here, even when it was hard. But it's hubris to think you can keep making it worse and worse for people and that somehow the idea of temperate winters will be enough to make them stay forever. We were shocked by the reception when we announced the move, but, of course, our employees see all of the same challenges we see, and it's even harder for them to afford this place."
They join a growing number of companies moving to the Nashville area, and our great state of Tennessee now ranks in the top five of relocation destinations for blue-staters.
And high-profile individuals have also fled blue states for Florida: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, PayPal's Peter Thiel, and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
To that end, beyond the corporations and wealthy individuals, millions of Americans have also elected to flee blue states. In 2024, the latest year of record, California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts lost 477,000 residents. But the greatest losses occurred in the first two years of the ChiCom Virus pandemic.
With the exit of those corporations and individuals goes billions in lost tax revenue to blue states, and they are now exacerbating their fiscal problems by raising taxes to make up for the loss — which will accelerate the exodus.
Finally, a caveat: Too often, we conservatives put all our eggs in one basket. That was the case with Charlie Kirk, whose massive influence ended in a split second with an assassin's bullet. Kirk's iconic status made him irreplaceable, and, fortunately, his influence has since been decentralized.
The Murdochs have all their eggs sitting in one Midtown Manhattan basket, and they should get them out of New York right now — move them and their employees to states where "affordability" is much better, along with culture and quality of life.
Mark Alexander is the executive editor of the Patriot Post.
