Fox News suffers sharp drop in ratings as US elections approach

November 2, 2026

Financial Times: Lachlan Murdoch — the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, who founded Fox News three decades ago and built it into a powerhouse of US conservative politics — compared this election cycle to the midterms of 2006, when George W Bush was halfway through his second term. “They’re just fatigued and watching slightly less television,” Murdoch said. “We’ve seen this playbook before.”…