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Police have conducted searches in a French city hall in an investigation targeting Edouard Philippe, a former prime minister and close ally of Emmanuel Macron.
The culture warriors at News Corp have long had their sights set on chipping away at the ABC’s credibility. They view the national broadcaster, in mainly free-market competitive terms, as an impediment to the accumulation of even more power and money for their proprietor. To see the foreign-owned media company’s attack on the national broadcaster as anything more sophisticated than a puerile attempt to increase market share would be to give it too much credit. But as with all Murdoch-related ventures, there are casualties.