At the time, the Vice President of Paramount who was planning to swallow up Warner Bros., Barry Diller, had become the Chairman and CEO of the Fox Group. All film and television-related businesses of the Murdoch Group in the United States were managed by this Polish Jew.
Initially, when Murdoch entered the American film and television industry, Fox was not his first choice; rather, it was Warner. The main reason he targeted Warner was that Barry Diller wanted to avenge the old grudge of the failed acquisition of Warner in 1969.