Joseph Azam, a former senior vice president at News Corp., told NPR about how the anti-Muslim and other bigoted rhetoric he heard at work there was so offensive, both as a Muslim and an American, that he left his job and now feels compelled to speak out.
Speaking to NPR’s David Folkenflik, Azam explained that although he left the Murdoch empire in 2017, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s recent attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, for wearing a hijab, and the recently-surfaced comments by Tucker Carlson characterizing Iraqis as “semi-literate, primitive monkeys” prompted the former employee to speak out. Azam immigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan as a toddler.
Scaring people. Demonizing immigrants. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country," former News Corp. Senior Vice President Joseph Azam tells NPR in his first public comments on his former employer.
"It fundamentally bothered me on a lot of days and I think I probably wasn't the only one," he says.
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