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"In a chilling scene at the end of James Graham’s play
Ink, Rupert Murdoch –
having made his indelible mark on British media and society – slows his
frenetic pace to ponder the future.
He’s thinking, he says almost dreamily, of a venture across the pond – yes,
perhaps something in television news.
The Broadway audience I sat in uttered an audible gasp. Because by now it was
2019, and we knew.
Murdoch would, of course, co-found
Fox News with Roger Ailes in 1996. And
these two princes of darkness would not only make billions in profit in the
decades to come.
They would wreak untold havoc on American democracy.
They would plow the fields and plant the seeds that gave us Donald Trump, and
all that has followed."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
