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Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

Trump announces he'll run for president again as Murdoch turns on him – and it could be politically expensive for both

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No politician, journalist or media critic has ever been heard to utter the phrase “as subtle as a Murdoch tabloid”.

So, when Murdoch’s New York Post responded to the Republicans’ unexpectedly meagre gains in the US mid-term elections, you did not need to read between the lines to see whom they blamed.

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