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In It to Win It

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8. You can see the Murdochs coming. Their content machines are overtly partisan and ideological.

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:45 PM

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With the Ellisons, they want their ideology to blend in among mainstream content between trash reality TV and prominent scripted TV among mainstream networks, and change the "culture" of those networks in a way that people who would normally be tuned out of politics won't notice.

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