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A sneak peak inside new book about Rupert Murdoch

Editor & Publisher reports Politico has obtained an advance copy of the upcoming Michael Wolff book that profiles Rupert Murdoch. The passages released today reveal Murdoch’s views on Fox News and its staff members and describe the reasoning behind his purchase of The Wall Street Journal. From the story:

“Wolff describes Murdoch as not wanting News Corp. to be defined by Fox News. And so last year’s purchase of The Wall Street Journal, he wrote, ‘was in no small way about wanting to trade the illiberal – the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing the unsubtle – for the better-heeled, more magnanimous, the further

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