In 1983 Linda Ronstadt was the biggest selling female artist of all time. With power comes responsibility, and she played her role correctly by warning the world about Rupert Murdoch….

Decades before Fox News altered the media landscape, Linda Ronstadt, a star known more for her melodies than her media critiques, delivered a powerful warning.

In a 1983 Australian TV interview — 13 years before the launch of Fox News — she spoke out against Rupert Murdoch’s sensationalist newspapers with astoundingly accurate foresight: Decades later, Ronstadt’s words resonate with eerie accuracy.

Her criticism of Murdoch’s approach – sensationalism over substance, fear over fact — seems almost prophetic. It wasn’t just about bad journalism; it was a warning about how Murdoch intended to steer the course of history through lurid, fearmongering disinfotainment.