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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Robert Thompson, Peter Hain, Barbara Ellen, Dominic Mohan, Claire Enders and Alice Enders

Rupert Murdoch made his own rules – what is the media mogul’s real legacy?

Murdoch seated in a car holding a newspaper and smiling to camera
Rupert Murdoch with a copy of the Sun newspaper in 2012. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Fox networks brought US primetime up to date … but upended TV news

The imperial doings of Rupert Murdoch over the past 70 years make for a story often told. Orthodoxy tells us that to grow and protect his empire he needed the support of political leaders, and to build their power some of those leaders needed the pulpits provided by the outlets that he controlled.

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