Trump announces he'll run for president again as Murdoch turns on him – and it could be politically expensive for both
- Written by Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

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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