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Fox Would Appall Conservative Trollope

By Robin Bates | Published: January 15, 2015

Conservative though he is, Anthony Trollope would be appalled at the arrogance of our rightwing media, given the way he goes after “The Jupiter” in “The Warden.”

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Which Shakespearean Hero Is Murdoch?

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2011

So which Shakespeare hero is Rupert Murdoch? Marche floats the names of Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Richard II and Richard III. I’d peg him as Iago.

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Citizen Murdoch Anti-Elitist? Think Again

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2011

Since the Rupert Murdoch scandal broke, a number of commentators have compared the media magnate to Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles’s 1941 classic. The parallel casts light on one of Murdoch’s most galling claims: that he is anti-elitist.

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