Why the Foxification of the British media must be resisted Two new right-wing TV news channels will further damage a deeply fractured Britain. Rupert Murdoch, pictured in 2014, is planning the launch of News UK TV With Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, the US will take a huge step back from the lies, conspiracy theories, and relentless stream of misinformation and disinformation that Donald Trump, ably supported by Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, has spewed out over the past four years. Here in Britain we seem to be moving in the opposite direction. Two new right-leaning television news channels will be launched this spring – a prospect that fills me with foreboding. Right now this deeply fractured, ill-informed country needs the gradual “Foxification” of its broadcast media (and concurrent weakening of the BBC) like a proverbial hole in the head.