Will Corporate America Ostracize Fox News?

I doubt it, and here’s why.

In the 1970s, I went to Trinity College, one of the many liberal arts schools in New England.  A few years ago, when Trump was in office, I had a conversation with one of its spokespeople.

Naively, I asked why the college has essentially had nothing to say about the (then) U.S. president, while it’s so plain that he stands against every one of the college’s values: honor, truth, fairness, racial equality, respect for science, and so forth.

The guy quickly straightened me out: many of the parents of these kids are rich beyond belief, and making a statement against Trump would alienate the hell out of a great number of them.

Now, as this article in The Intercept lays out, Corporate America actually has broken away from the Sackler family for deliberately and criminally addicting many millions of people to opiates, so couldn’t it do the same with the Murdochs?

It’s not impossible, but again, I’m betting against it.  There are essentially zero Sackler fans, but almost half the country is Republican, i.e., adherents to a party that is led, to this day, by Donald Trump.

It’s disgusting, but it’s the truth.