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The French Rupert Murdoch

As France erupts (see page 11), readers of Le Journal du Dimanche have been denied their weekly fix, says Politico. The title’s journalists are on strike, in protest at a feared “far-right lurch” following its acquisition by media tycoon Vincent Bolloré – dubbed “the French Rupert Murdoch”. The influential newspaper is just one of the assets acquired by Bolloré’s Vivendi conglomerate after its takeover of

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