‘The real Rupert’: News Corp global chief says idea that Murdoch influences elections is a ‘myth’
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#5R0HM)
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The idea that Rupert Murdoch influences Australian elections is a myth" and far removed from the behaviour of the real Rupert", the media mogul's global chief executive, Robert Thomson, has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Thomson rejected a suggestion by the inquiry chair, Sarah Hanson-Young, that the chairman and CEO of News Corp had a hand in directing his newspaper editors on which party should win.
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