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Murdoch hosted Obama to confront Ailes about Fox News's coverage (video)
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Murdoch hosted Obama to confront Ailes about Fox News's coverage (video)
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Murdoch hosted Obama to confront Ailes about Fox News's coverage

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Think Progress:  Wolff: Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox’s coverage.

The Hollywood Liberal:  Wolff: Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox?s coverage.

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Wolff: Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox’s coverage.
Think Progress — Sometime last summer, Barack Obama reportedly met secretly with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and the network’s owner Rupert Murdoch in an attempt for both parties to “clear the air,” after Obama had received some unfavorable coverage from the network. Yesterday on CNN, Michael Wolff, author a recent Murdoch biography — “The Man Who Owns The News” — said that Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox’s unfair coverage of Obama: WOLFF: When he arranged for the summit between Murdoch and Obama, the first time that they met, he brought in — he brought Ailes to this exactly ...

Wolff: Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox?s coverage.
The Hollywood Liberal — Wolff: Murdoch brought in Obama to criticize Ailes for Fox?s coverage. Sometime last summer, Barack Obama reportedly met secretly with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and the network’s owner Rupert Murdoch in an attempt for both parties to “clear the air,” after Obama had received some unfavorable coverage from the network. Yesterday on CNN, Michael Wolff, author of a recent Murdoch biography — “The Man Who […] Sometime last summer, Barack Obama reportedly met secretly with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and the network’s owner Rupert Murdoch in an attempt for both parties to “clear the air,” after Obama had received some unfavorable coverage from the network. ...

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