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Donald Trump's world increasingly shaped by Fox News, and Fox by Trump

"Outfoxed • Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism • FULL DOCUMENTARY FILM exposes Fox News"

Shannon Pettypiece and Gerry Smith March 3 2017 - 10:58AM

New York: Donald Trump's TV viewing habits have changed since he became president - networks he views as hostile have fallen out of favour, Fox News is in heavy rotation - creating an unusually close relationship between a president and a news outlet.

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Fox News is the most profitable network run by 21st Century Fox Inc., Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, whose shares have climbed 12 per cent since election day, a tad above the broader market.

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Trump's fandom could backfire if Fox News becomes viewed as "the Pravda of the government," Feldstein said.

Murdoch and Trump have personal ties. The Fox co-chairman's ex-wife, Wendi Deng, is a friend of Ivanka Trump. Her husband, Jared Kushner, acted as a liaison between Murdoch and Trump during the campaign, when the future president had a more confrontational relationship with Fox News. In January, Trump tweeted that Murdoch is a "great guy." Murdoch has been running Fox News himself since last year's ouster of Roger Ailes, who faced sexual harassment allegations.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trumps-world-increasingly-shaped-by-fox-news-and-fox-by-trump-20170302-guprcd.html

While in Russia .. Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War

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Dissent has now been effectively marginalized. Opposition candidates are frequently kept off the ballot on legal technicalities, and, when they do make it on, they are denied media coverage, let alone the “administrative resources” enjoyed by pro-Kremlin politicians. Some thirty journalists have been murdered in Russia in the past decade and a half; human-rights groups that receive funding from abroad are registered in Moscow as “foreign agents.” And contemporary Russian television is not only compliant but celebratory. “Imagine you have two dozen TV channels and it is all Fox News,” Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister under Putin and now a critic, said.

Yet those channels bear little resemblance to the dreary Soviet broadcasts with their stilted language and shabby production values. Just as Putin no longer fills prison camps with countless “enemies of the people,” as Stalin did, but, rather, makes a chilling example of a famous few, like the businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky or the group Pussy Riot, his propagandists have taken their cue from foreign forms: magazine shows, shout-fests, game shows, and reality shows. There are many figures in public life who are not permitted to appear on any talk show or news program. Russians can still find independent information on Facebook and various Web sites; critical books and magazines are available in stores and online; Echo of Moscow, a liberal radio station, hangs on. But, even in the Internet era, more than eighty per cent of Russians get their news from television. Manipulation of TV coverage is a crucial factor in Putin’s extraordinarily high popularity ratings, typically in excess of eighty per cent—ratings that Donald Trump both admires and envies. .. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war
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