News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson expressed confidence in the U.S. business climate, attributing recent economic optimism to what he described as a “cultural awakening” following the latest election. Speaking during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Thomson argued that a move away from “woke” policies has fostered stronger business confidence and a more accommodating regulatory environment.
“We are witnessing a measurable rise in business confidence in the U.S. since the election,” Thomson said. He suggested that the combination of economic optimism and cultural shifts has led to a reduction in unnecessary regulations and expanded opportunities for businesses and individuals alike. Additionally, he noted a decline in both institutional and self-imposed censorship, signaling what he sees as a more open and productive media landscape, wrote The Hollywood Reporter.
While Thomson said his comment was a general remark on business conditions, News Corp., which is owned by the Murdoch family and home to Dow Jones and publications including The Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Post, also reported a record revenue of $600 million at Dow Jones for the quarter, driven by improved circulation revenues, with digital circulation revenue growing at its fastest pace in two years.
It also saw higher professional information business revenues driven by its subscription products. News Corp expects year-over-year growth at Dow Jones to increase in the second half of the year. Digital-only subscriptions at The Wall Street Journal were up 7 percent year-over-year for the quarter, while total subscriptions were up 4 percent.
News Corp is one of many publishers to have signed a licensing agreement with AI platform OpenAI. Thomson continued to praise that collaboration while speaking out against Perplexity and newcomer DeepSeek. The company filed suit against Perplexity, an AI research and conversational search engine, in October, alleging that it is illegally using News Corp’s copyrighted work.
“We are pleased with our partnership with OpenAI, and hope that other companies in the segment take a similarly enlightened approach. Our legal action against the perplexing Perplexity is underway, and we look forward with relish to document discovery,“ Thomson said.
Positioning News Corp. at the crossroads of digital media and artificial intelligence, Thomson reinforced the lasting importance of original reporting. “Data centers, energy sources, and advanced chips may serve as essential AI infrastructure,” he remarked, “but ultimately, content will remain king in the AI era,” the outlet noted.
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Victory Hooray
WOKISM has been the single most societal and business destructive invention by the demonRAT communist party in the past 10 years. That along with the dozen or more “genders” invented by the NWO zealots using coerced unreversable transgender body mutilation reminiscent of Nazi concentration medical experiments as a second disaster directed at the most vulnerable in society. Somehow legislatures need to pass laws that prevent these things for happening and the perpetrators be prosecuted as felon level criminals.