Bill de Blasio: Murdoch's media empire is behind Trump's election [View all]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/07/bill-de-blasio-interview-trump-rupert-murdoch?CMP=share_btn_fb

Ben Jacobs in New Orleans

The New York mayor discussed the role Fox News has played in US politics and the progressive shift in the Democratic Party

Tuesday 7 August 2018

To New York mayor Bill de Blasio, Rupert Murdoch is directly responsible for Donald Trump.

In fact, De Blasio argues, “if you could remove News Corp from the last 25 years of American history, we would be in an entirely different place”.

In his view, without the malign influence of Murdoch’s media empire and its conservative Trump-supporting Fox News “we would be a more unified country. We would not be suffering a lot of the negativity and divisiveness we’re going through right now. I can’t ignore that.”

De Blasio spoke to the Guardian in New Orleans, hours before he took the stage at the annual Netroots Nation conference of progressive activists.

The New York mayor, who has never been on the best of terms with the famously aggressive press in his hometown, has his own criticisms of America’s media but has not restrained his attacks on Trump for branding reporters “the enemy of the people”.

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