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Rupert Murdoch doesn’t dominate our media. He stands in the way of total left control, hence the hate campaign

27 October 2020

5:00 AM

27 October 2020

5:00 AM

For the left, Rupert Murdoch truly is an, if not the, Antichrist. He has been so before Trump and is likely to be so after Trump is gone. This is one of the great political constants of the last four decades across much of the English-speaking world.

That Murdoch has “extremely polarised” our politics, or that he has “poisoned” our media, is really a shorthand for “he has dared to provide an alternative view” for that part of the electorate that is instinctively not left-wing.

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