“The man who owns the news”: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch – Photo: Imago
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The US election has been decided – and Donald Trump seems to have lost it several times. Ironically, the conservative media empire of the Murdochs is clearly distancing itself from the outgoing US president. Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal teach Trump a lesson
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When Donald Trump sensationally won the US presidential election four years ago, media mogul Rupert Murdoch suddenly found himself in the role of supplicant. “The man who owns the news,” as Michael Wolff had once ennobled Murdoch in his biography, had bet on Hillary Clinton and now had to flatter Trump, after all, it was the conservative regular audience of Fox News, the New York Post or the Wall Street Journal to give exclusive access to the new president. Rupert Murdoch expected Trump defeat It was …