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TV Critic James Poniewozik on the Murdochs and 'Succession' | 11

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The Paradox of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch

The hosts of Fox News basically railed against raunchy liberal minded TV shows like The Simpsons and Married with Children. Of course the irony is that Rupert Murdoch's empire made those shows. This sort of goes back to a paradox a sort of self-sustaining paradox that you see in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper career which is also this populist trashy conservatism.

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