Never mind what Rupert Murdoch really thinks about Donald Trump | Jane Martinson

Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury is further proof that Murdoch never lets personal feelings get in the way of good businessThere are many reasons to want to go back to early 2016 – not least the fact that Rupert Murdoch was still tweeting his views of the world rather than leaving it to the minions in his global media empire. In these intervening bleak years, Twitter has been enlivened by the almost constant posts of a man Murdoch has called “my friend, Donald J Trump”.In power, Trump has favoured Murdoch’s media outlets, granting interviews to his Fox News TV channel and his first post-election foreign newspaper interview to the Times. But now, thanks to Fire and Fury, the explosive new book on the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, we know a bit more about what Murdoch really thinks of his fellow billionaire. After a call in which they discussed immigration and Silicon Valley, Murdoch is reported to have put the phone down on Trump and said: “What a fucking idiot.” Related: Michael Wolff's explosive book on Trump: the key revelations Related: Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others Related: Secondary school pupils 'ill-equipped to cope' with stress of social media Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ AdWeek | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Slate | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Stuff | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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