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as posted by the channelRight-wing media endorsements helped Donald Trump get elected. These are the new media barons pulling the strings of international politics.
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When the Washington Post declined to endorse a candidate in the US election, it sparked a wave of resignations and cancelled subscriptions. Did owner Jeff Bezos fear reprisals from an angry Donald Trump, and appease the incoming president for commercial gain?
Elon Musk controls X (formerly Twitter), one of the most influential information sources in the world, and now sits at Donald Trump’s right hand.
Rupert Murdoch wants to pass his media empire - including Fox News, Sky, The Times and the Sun - on to his most right-wing son, Lachlan.
In this video, former Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips joins the New Statesman’s Tom Gatti to discuss the new generation of media moguls influencing global politics, and to ask: who really runs the world?
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The making of a media mogul, by Alison Phillips
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